About Newmarket
Newmarket is a village in County Kilkenny, 20 km south of Kilkenny. The map gives it 305 buildings and 1 named street, with 10 places named on them in 22 kinds, and 241 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 41th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.
- Where
- 20 km south of Kilkenny, 119 km from Dublin
- Position
- 52.4708° N, 7.2633° W
- Governed
- Kilkenny County Council, in the province of Leinster
- On the model
- 305 buildings, 1 street, 10 named places in 22 kinds
Newmarket in order
3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1180 to the fifteenth century. That is not a history of Newmarket, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.
- 1180Jerpoint AbbeyAbbeys · 8.5 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
- 1193Kells Augustinian PrioryRingforts and sites · 7.5 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
- the fifteenth centuryCallan Augustinian FriaryHistoric churches · 12 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
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.
- Gáirdín an Ghorta420 mGardens
- Newmarket Portal tomb560 mRingforts and sites
- Saint Brendan's Well670 mHoly wells
- St. Brendan's Church710 mHistoric churches
- Welcome to Castlemorris Wood1.0 kmInformation boards
- Castle Morres1.6 kmRuins
- Sheepstown Castle (site of)1.7 kmRingforts and sites
- Danganmore Wayside Cross1.9 kmInformation boards
- Sheepstown Church2.1 kmHistoric churches
- Hugginstown Ringfort2.1 kmRingforts and sites
- Ballyboodan Ringfort2.2 kmRingforts and sites
- Kilcurl Church Ruin2.4 kmRingforts and sites
Getting around
The map gives no numbered road inside Newmarket; the roads it does record are local.
No stop here appears in the national timetable.
1 school or college on the map: Saint Brendan's 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.