About Windgap
Windgap, Bearna na Gaoithe in Irish, is a village in County Kilkenny, 23 km south-west of Kilkenny. It stands on the L1033. The map gives it 382 buildings and 3 named streets, with 19 places named on them in 26 kinds, and 176 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 32th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.
- Where
- 23 km south-west of Kilkenny, 125 km from Dublin
- Position
- 52.4618° N, 7.3972° W
- Roads
- L1033
- Governed
- Kilkenny County Council, in the province of Leinster
- On the model
- 382 buildings, 3 streets, 19 named places in 26 kinds
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.
- Saint Nicholas' Chapel130 mHistoric churches
- Handball Centre170 mWaymarks and guideposts
- The Wonders of Windgap200 mInformation boards
- Windgap Loop Walks200 mInformation boards
- Chapel Rock210 mHills
- Thimble Well540 mHoly wells
- Carricknagappul610 mHills
- Bearna Breac Loop Walk1.5 kmWaymarks and guideposts
- Butlerswood Ringfort1.8 kmRingforts and sites
- Oldcastle Castle (site of)1.8 kmRingforts and sites
- Tubberavawsheen1.9 kmHoly wells
- Frankfort East Ringfort (rath)1.9 kmRingforts and sites
Getting around
The map records the L1033 running through Windgap.
No stop here appears in the national timetable.
1 school or college on the map: Scoil San Nioclás.
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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 (item Q2084226). 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.