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About Arles

Arles is a village in County Laois, 31 km north-east of Kilkenny. The map gives it 441 buildings and 2 named streets, with 9 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 96 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 25th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Where
31 km north-east of Kilkenny, 72 km from Dublin
Position
52.8923° N, 7.0195° W
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
441 buildings, 2 streets, 9 named places in 21 kinds
Church of the Sacred Heart, Arless
Church of the Sacred Heart, Arless·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ashfield Hall gate lodge, Ballickmoyler, Co. Laois (1)
Ashfield Hall gate lodge, Ballickmoyler, Co. Laois (1)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Arles in order

8 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the twelfth century to 2016. That is not a history of Arles, 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.

the twelfth century2016Round Tower (site of)Ernest Shackleton
The twelfth century
The thirteenth century
  • the thirteenth centuryWoodstock CastleRuins · 12 km from the centre
  • the 1210sCarlow CastleCastles · 8.4 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland, national monument of Ireland
The sixteenth century
  • the sixteenth centuryWhite CastleCastles · 11 km from the centre
The eighteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first 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 96 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Arles; the roads it does record are local. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Arles National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Arles?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 31 km north-east of Kilkenny and 72 km from Dublin.
How big is Arles?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 441 buildings, 2 named streets and 9 named places, which by building count makes it the 25th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Arles?
96 things the map records in and around it, the closest being St Abban's Well, Curraghatheskin Wood and Castletown Ringfort.
How do you get to Arles?
3 bus and train lines call at 6 stops here in the published timetable, run by JJ Kavanagh and TFI Local Link Carlow Kilkenny Wicklow.
Has County Laois grown or shrunk?
The census counted 153,930 people in the county in 1841 and 91,877 in 2022.
441
buildings on the model
2
named streets
9
named places
21
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 Q2569199). 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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