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About Killenard

Killenard, Coill an Aird in Irish, is a village in County Laois, 54 km north of Kilkenny. The map gives it 775 buildings and 7 named streets, with 11 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 105 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 11th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Where
54 km north of Kilkenny, 64 km from Dublin
Position
53.1328° N, 7.1473° W
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
775 buildings, 7 streets, 11 named places in 19 kinds
Low bridge at Sheskin near Portarlington
Low bridge at Sheskin near Portarlington·Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Near Portarlington
Near Portarlington·Robert Ashby, 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 105 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Killenard; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 4 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 Killenard?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 54 km north of Kilkenny and 64 km from Dublin.
How big is Killenard?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 775 buildings, 7 named streets and 11 named places, which by building count makes it the 11th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Killenard?
105 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Springfield Clump, Mullaghlea and Garryvacum Hill.
How do you get to Killenard?
2 bus and train lines call 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.
775
buildings on the model
7
named streets
11
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 (item Q26718654). 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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