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About Fisherstown

Fisherstown, Gráig an Iascaire in Irish, is a village in County Laois, 51 km north of Kilkenny. It stands on the M7, L3931 and L39322. The map gives it 377 buildings and 5 named streets, with 7 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 116 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 29th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Where
51 km north of Kilkenny, 61 km from Dublin
Position
53.0984° N, 7.0768° W
Roads
M7, L3931, L39322 and L3933
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
377 buildings, 5 streets, 7 named places in 21 kinds
Eastbound M7, Monasterevin Bypass
Eastbound M7, Monasterevin Bypass·David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Entering County Kildare on the M7 E20
Entering County Kildare on the M7 E20·Ian S, 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 116 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M7, L3931, L39322 and L3933 running through Fisherstown.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Fisherstown?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 51 km north of Kilkenny and 61 km from Dublin, on the M7, L3931 and L39322.
How big is Fisherstown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 377 buildings, 5 named streets and 7 named places, which by building count makes it the 29th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Fisherstown?
116 things the map records in and around it, the closest being St. Bridget's Well, Children's Burial Ground and Dangan's Wood.
How do you get to Fisherstown?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the M7 and L3931.
Has County Laois grown or shrunk?
The census counted 153,930 people in the county in 1841 and 91,877 in 2022.
377
buildings on the model
5
named streets
7
named places
21
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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