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About Urlingford

Urlingford, Áth na nUrlainn in Irish, is a town in County Kilkenny, 24 km west of Kilkenny, with 867 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the M8, R435 and R639. The map gives it 1,662 buildings and 11 named streets, with 57 places named on them in 45 kinds, and 188 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 7th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.

Population
867 at the 2006 census
Where
24 km west of Kilkenny, 113 km from Dublin
Position
52.7206° N, 7.5825° W, 120 m above sea level
Roads
M8, R435 and R639
Governed
Kilkenny County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,662 buildings, 11 streets, 57 named places in 45 kinds
This building was once a mill, later the creamery in Urlingford. It stands on private land, but photographic permission was got verbally on site.
This building was once a mill, later the creamery in Urlingford. It stands on private land, but photographic permission was got verbally on site.·A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Modern thatched house in the townland of Ardreagh, Urlingford, Co. Kilkenny
Modern thatched house in the townland of Ardreagh, Urlingford, Co. Kilkenny·A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Urlingford in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1182 to 1823. That is not a history of Urlingford, 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.

11821823Kilcooly AbbeyGarrylaun Church Ruin
The twelfth century
  • 1182Kilcooly AbbeyAbbeys · 5.6 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fifteenth 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 188 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M8, R435 and R639 running through Urlingford.

By bus or train

6 lines call at 10 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Urlingford?
In County Kilkenny, in the province of Leinster, 24 km west of Kilkenny and 113 km from Dublin, on the M8, R435 and R639.
How big is Urlingford?
867 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 1,662 buildings and 11 named streets.
What is there to see in Urlingford?
188 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Urlingford Castle, Islands Church Ruin and Borrismore Ringfort (Rath).
How do you get to Urlingford?
6 bus and train lines call at 10 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bernard Kavanagh & Sons, JJ/Bernard Kavanagh and TFI Local Link Laois Offaly.
Has County Kilkenny grown or shrunk?
The census counted 202,420 people in the county in 1841 and 104,160 in 2022.
1,662
buildings on the model
11
named streets
57
named places
45
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 Q2644656). 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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