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County Kilkenny · Leinster

About Paulstown

Paulstown, Baile Phóil in Irish, is a village in County Kilkenny, 16 km east of Kilkenny. It stands on the M9. The map gives it 847 buildings and 10 named streets, with 30 places named on them in 28 kinds, and 114 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 15th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.

Where
16 km east of Kilkenny, 90 km from Dublin
Position
52.6797° N, 7.0203° W
Roads
M9
Governed
Kilkenny County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
847 buildings, 10 streets, 30 named places in 28 kinds
A view of Shankill Castle.
A view of Shankill Castle.·A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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.

202,42060,463104,16018412022

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.

All 114 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M9 running through Paulstown. 4 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

6 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Bhríde.

Questions people ask

Where is Paulstown?
In County Kilkenny, in the province of Leinster, 16 km east of Kilkenny and 90 km from Dublin, on the M9.
How big is Paulstown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 847 buildings, 10 named streets and 30 named places, which by building count makes it the 15th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.
What is there to see in Paulstown?
114 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Site of turnpike, Shankill Castle and Gardens and The Green Garden.
How do you get to Paulstown?
6 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Barrow Bus, Bus Éireann and Dunnes Coaches.
Has County Kilkenny grown or shrunk?
The census counted 202,420 people in the county in 1841 and 104,160 in 2022.
847
buildings on the model
10
named streets
30
named places
28
kinds of place

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 (item Q3776907). 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.

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