About Owning
Owning, Ónainn in Irish, is a village in County Kilkenny, 21 km north-west of Waterford. The map gives it 560 buildings and 0 named streets, with 12 places named on them in 22 kinds, and 178 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 24th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.
- Where
- 21 km north-west of Waterford, 129 km from Dublin
- Position
- 52.3879° N, 7.3438° W
- Governed
- Kilkenny County Council, in the province of Leinster
- On the model
- 560 buildings, 0 streets, 12 named places in 22 kinds
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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.
- Owning Church Ruin90 mHistoric churches
- Owning Portal Tomb390 mRingforts and sites
- Tubber a' Teampuill1.6 kmHoly wells
- Kilmanahin Church site1.6 kmRingforts and sites
- Building Wood1.6 kmWoods
- Carriganog Hill1.7 kmHills
- Tobermoininne2.0 kmHoly wells
- Garryduff Standing Stone2.1 kmRingforts and sites
- Glencommaun Ringfort2.3 kmRingforts and sites
- Kilmacoliver Hill2.4 kmHills
- Kilmacoliver Hill Passage Tomb2.6 kmRingforts and sites
- Kilkieran Monastic Site2.7 kmRingforts and sites
Getting around
The map gives no numbered road inside Owning; the roads it does record are local.
No stop here appears in the national timetable.
1 school or college on the map: Owning 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.