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County Laois · Leinster

About Emo

Emo, Ioma in Irish, is a village in County Laois, 50 km north of Kilkenny. The map gives it 555 buildings and 1 named street, with 25 places named on them in 26 kinds, and 167 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 17th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Where
50 km north of Kilkenny, 69 km from Dublin
Position
53.0968° N, 7.2084° W
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
555 buildings, 1 street, 25 named places in 26 kinds
Side view of Emo Court in July 2013.
Side view of Emo Court in July 2013.·AnTuisealGinideach, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Emo, County Laois, near to Emo, Kennel Cross Roads, New Inn Cross Roads, The Togher and Carn Bridge, Laois, Ireland. Excellent topiary.
Emo, County Laois, near to Emo, Kennel Cross Roads, New Inn Cross Roads, The Togher and Carn Bridge, Laois, Ireland. Excellent topiary.·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 167 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Emo; the roads it does record are local. 4 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Emo?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 50 km north of Kilkenny and 69 km from Dublin.
How big is Emo?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 555 buildings, 1 named street and 25 named places, which by building count makes it the 17th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Emo?
167 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Copse, The Copse and Darry Hill.
How do you get to Emo?
1 bus and train line calls at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Slieve Bloom Coach Tours.
Has County Laois grown or shrunk?
The census counted 153,930 people in the county in 1841 and 91,877 in 2022.
555
buildings on the model
1
named streets
25
named places
26
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 Q2670270). 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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