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About Clonaslee

Clonaslee, Cluain na Slí in Irish, is a village in County Laois, 58 km north of Kilkenny. It stands on the R422. The map gives it 772 buildings and 4 named streets, with 21 places named on them in 22 kinds, and 56 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 12th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Where
58 km north of Kilkenny, 87 km from Dublin
Position
53.1488° N, 7.5252° W
Roads
R422
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
772 buildings, 4 streets, 21 named places in 22 kinds
Muscovy Duck at Brittas Lake
Muscovy Duck at Brittas Lake·Noahhwang, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Muscovy Duck at Brittas Lake
Muscovy Duck at Brittas Lake·Noahhwang, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 56 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R422 running through Clonaslee.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Clonaslee School.

Questions people ask

Where is Clonaslee?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 58 km north of Kilkenny and 87 km from Dublin, on the R422.
How big is Clonaslee?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 772 buildings, 4 named streets and 21 named places, which by building count makes it the 12th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Clonaslee?
56 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Clonaslee Heritage Centre, Ballynakill Castle (ruins) and Brittas House.
How do you get to Clonaslee?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by 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.
772
buildings on the model
4
named streets
21
named places
22
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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