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About Abbeyleix

Abbeyleix, Mainistir Laoise in Irish, is a town in County Laois, 30 km north of Kilkenny. It stands on the N77, R425 and R430. The map gives it 2,760 buildings and 39 named streets, with 105 places named on them in 68 kinds, and 95 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 4th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Population
1,897, as the map records it
Where
30 km north of Kilkenny, 87 km from Dublin
Position
52.9145° N, 7.3482° W, 95 m above sea level
Roads
N77, R425, R430, L1656, L16566 and L5731
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
2,760 buildings, 39 streets, 105 named places in 68 kinds
Abbeyleix (civil parish in County Laois, Ireland)
Abbeyleix (civil parish in County Laois, Ireland)·A.-K. D., CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Main Street, Abbeyleix
Main Street, Abbeyleix·Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Abbeyleix in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1382 to 1915. That is not a history of Abbeyleix, 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.

13821915Aghaboe AbbeyBallypickas GAA
The fourteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century

County Laois 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.

153,93044,59591,87718412022

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 95 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N77, R425, R430, L1656, L16566 and L5731 running through Abbeyleix. 8 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

5 lines call at 5 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Abbeyleix South National School and Schoil Mhuire.

Questions people ask

Where is Abbeyleix?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 30 km north of Kilkenny and 87 km from Dublin, on the N77, R425 and R430.
How big is Abbeyleix?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,760 buildings, 39 named streets and 105 named places, which by building count makes it the 4th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Abbeyleix?
95 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Abbeyleix Community Garden, Knocknamoe House and Abbey Sense Garden.
How do you get to Abbeyleix?
5 bus and train lines call at 5 stops here in the published timetable, run by Slieve Bloom Coach Tours and TFI Local Link Laois Offaly.
Has County Laois grown or shrunk?
The census counted 153,930 people in the county in 1841 and 91,877 in 2022.
2,760
buildings on the model
39
named streets
105
named places
68
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 Q1650406). 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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