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About Cullahill

Cullahill is a village in County Laois, 24 km north-west of Kilkenny. It stands on the M8, R639 and L1558. The map gives it 437 buildings and 4 named streets, with 12 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 199 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 26th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Where
24 km north-west of Kilkenny, 100 km from Dublin
Position
52.8186° N, 7.4750° W, 100 m above sea level
Roads
M8, R639 and L1558
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
437 buildings, 4 streets, 12 named places in 23 kinds
Cullahill Castle Chapel in the townland of Castlequarter. Cullahill Castle is visible in the background. National Monuments ref no. LA035-021001.
Cullahill Castle Chapel in the townland of Castlequarter. Cullahill Castle is visible in the background. National Monuments ref no. LA035-021001.·A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Piscina in the Wouth wall of Cullahill Castle Chapel. National Monuments ref no. for the church ruin is LA035-021001.
Piscina in the Wouth wall of Cullahill Castle Chapel. National Monuments ref no. for the church ruin is LA035-021001.·A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Cullahill in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1382 to 1823. That is not a history of Cullahill, 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.

13821823Aghaboe AbbeyGarrylaun Church Ruin
The fourteenth century
The fifteenth century
The nineteenth 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 199 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M8, R639 and L1558 running through Cullahill. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

3 lines call 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: Cullohill National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Cullahill?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 24 km north-west of Kilkenny and 100 km from Dublin, on the M8, R639 and L1558.
How big is Cullahill?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 437 buildings, 4 named streets and 12 named places, which by building count makes it the 26th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Cullahill?
199 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Parkanahown, Cullahill Castle Chapel and Cullahill Castle.
How do you get to Cullahill?
3 bus and train lines call 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.
437
buildings on the model
4
named streets
12
named places
23
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 Q2736041). 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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