About Muckalee
Muckalee, Maigh Coillí in Irish, is a village in County Kilkenny, 13 km north-east of Kilkenny. It stands on the L1844. The map gives it 358 buildings and 3 named streets, with 5 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 144 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 39th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.
- Where
- 13 km north-east of Kilkenny, 90 km from Dublin
- Position
- 52.7600° N, 7.1742° W
- Roads
- L1844
- Governed
- Kilkenny County Council, in the province of Leinster
- On the model
- 358 buildings, 3 streets, 5 named places in 18 kinds
County Kilkenny since 1841
Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.
Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.
What to see
Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.
- Clogharinka Castle (site of)180 mCastles
- Clogharinka Motte190 mRingforts and sites
- Muckalee Church (ruin)2.7 kmHistoric churches
- Knockanaddoge Ringfort (rath)2.9 kmRingforts and sites
- Knockanaddoge Ringfort (rath)3.6 kmRingforts and sites
- Smithstown Roman Catholic Chapel3.7 kmHistoric churches
- Rockafoil Wood3.7 kmWoods
- Rockafoil Wood3.8 kmWoods
- Edward Burke4.0 kmMonuments
- Dysart Glebe Ringfort (rath)4.0 kmRingforts and sites
- Newtown Ringfort (rath)4.1 kmRingforts and sites
- Fish Pond4.6 kmLakes
Getting around
The map records the L1844 running through Muckalee.
No stop here appears in the national timetable.
1 school or college on the map: Muckalee National School.
Questions people ask
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Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata. County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.