About Attanagh
Attanagh is a village in County Laois, 21 km north of Kilkenny. It stands on the R432, L1751 and L5935. The map gives it 336 buildings and 4 named streets, with 6 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 149 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 33th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
- Where
- 21 km north of Kilkenny, 92 km from Dublin
- Position
- 52.8337° N, 7.3470° W
- Roads
- R432, L1751 and L5935
- Governed
- Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
- On the model
- 336 buildings, 4 streets, 6 named places in 18 kinds
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.
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.
- 70 m
- Friday Well170 mHoly wells
- Ballyoskill Ringfort (Rath)1.2 kmRingforts and sites
- St Finan Church1.8 kmHistoric churches
- St. Finan's Well1.8 kmHoly wells
- Ballynaslee Ringfort2.9 kmRingforts and sites
- Time Capsule3.2 kmMonuments
- Ballyconra Ringfort3.2 kmRingforts and sites
- Daru na Og Playground3.2 kmPlaygrounds
- Seskin Ringfort3.2 kmRingforts and sites
- Lady's Well3.3 kmHoly wells
- Moat Castle (site of)3.4 kmRingforts and sites
Getting around
The map records the R432, L1751 and L5935 running through Attanagh.
No stop here appears in the national timetable.
The map records no school inside the settlement.
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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. 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.