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Kilkenny
County Kilkenny · Leinster

About Piltown

Piltown, Baile an Phoill in Irish, is a village in County Kilkenny, 18 km north-west of Waterford. It stands on the N24, L1039 and L3432. The map gives it 1,062 buildings and 22 named streets, with 33 places named on them in 37 kinds, and 163 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 9th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.

Where
18 km north-west of Waterford, 132 km from Dublin
Position
52.3497° N, 7.3303° W, 10 m above sea level
Roads
N24, L1039, L3432, L4222 and L5125
Governed
Kilkenny County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,062 buildings, 22 streets, 33 named places in 37 kinds
Sewer vent near graveyard Piltown 01
Sewer vent near graveyard Piltown 01·A.-K. D., CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Sewer vent Creamery Road Piltown. It has no maker's mark, but the number of flutes and measurements match those of other examples made by Tonge & Taggart Dublin.
Sewer vent Creamery Road Piltown. It has no maker's mark, but the number of flutes and measurements match those of other examples made by Tonge & Taggart Dublin.·A.-K. D., CC0 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 163 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N24, L1039, L3432, L4222 and L5125 running through Piltown.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Piltown National School, Kildalton College and Kildalton College.

Questions people ask

Where is Piltown?
In County Kilkenny, in the province of Leinster, 18 km north-west of Waterford and 132 km from Dublin, on the N24, L1039 and L3432.
How big is Piltown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,062 buildings, 22 named streets and 33 named places, which by building count makes it the 9th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.
What is there to see in Piltown?
163 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Pil River Park, Ponsonby Memorial Tower and St. John's Well.
How do you get to Piltown?
8 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Piltown Coaches and TFI Local Link Carlow Kilkenny Wicklow.
Has County Kilkenny grown or shrunk?
The census counted 202,420 people in the county in 1841 and 104,160 in 2022.
1,062
buildings on the model
22
named streets
33
named places
37
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 Q3777986). 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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