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County Kilkenny · Leinster

About Thomastown

Thomastown, Baile Mhic Andáin in Irish, is a town in County Kilkenny, 16 km south-east of Kilkenny. It stands on the R448 and R700. The map gives it 2,820 buildings and 44 named streets, with 140 places named on them in 82 kinds, and 216 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the third largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.

Population
2,305, as the map records it
Where
16 km south-east of Kilkenny, 109 km from Dublin
Position
52.5252° N, 7.1382° W
Roads
R448 and R700
Governed
Kilkenny County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
2,820 buildings, 44 streets, 140 named places in 82 kinds
Thomastown (townland in Thomastown, County Kilkenny, Ireland)
Thomastown (townland in Thomastown, County Kilkenny, Ireland)·A.-K. D., CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Brady's Castle front view
Brady's Castle front view·A.-K. D., CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

Thomastown in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1180 to 1863. That is not a history of Thomastown, 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.

11801863Jerpoint AbbeyHoly Cross Well
The twelfth century
The nineteenth century

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 216 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R448 and R700 running through Thomastown. 4 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 4 lines call at 5 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

4 school or colleges on the map: Saint Mary's National School, Grennan College Thomastown, School of Food and Grennan College.

Questions people ask

Where is Thomastown?
In County Kilkenny, in the province of Leinster, 16 km south-east of Kilkenny and 109 km from Dublin, on the R448 and R700.
How big is Thomastown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,820 buildings, 44 named streets and 140 named places, which by building count makes it the 3th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.
What is there to see in Thomastown?
216 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Nore Valley Walk, Grennan Loop Walk and Brady's Castle.
How do you get to Thomastown?
4 bus and train lines call at 5 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail and TFI Local Link Carlow Kilkenny Wicklow. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Kilkenny grown or shrunk?
The census counted 202,420 people in the county in 1841 and 104,160 in 2022.
2,820
buildings on the model
44
named streets
140
named places
82
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 Q1433139). 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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