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About Castletown

Castletown, Baile an Chaisleáin in Irish, is a village in County Laois, 40 km north-west of Kilkenny. It stands on the L1672. The map gives it 716 buildings and 8 named streets, with 5 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 69 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 13th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Where
40 km north-west of Kilkenny, 92 km from Dublin
Position
52.9779° N, 7.4943° W
Roads
L1672
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
716 buildings, 8 streets, 5 named places in 19 kinds
Castletown, County Laois
Castletown, County Laois·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Near Castletown, County Laois
Near Castletown, County Laois·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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 69 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L1672 running through Castletown.

By bus or train

4 lines call at 2 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 Castletown?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 40 km north-west of Kilkenny and 92 km from Dublin, on the L1672.
How big is Castletown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 716 buildings, 8 named streets and 5 named places, which by building count makes it the 13th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Castletown?
69 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Mountrath Park, Bushy Hill and Kilbricken Church ruins.
How do you get to Castletown?
4 bus and train lines call at 2 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.
716
buildings on the model
8
named streets
5
named places
19
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. 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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