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About Killeshin

Killeshin, Cill Uisean in Irish, is a village in County Laois, 28 km north-east of Kilkenny. It stands on the R430. The map gives it 693 buildings and 4 named streets, with 21 places named on them in 26 kinds, and 68 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 14th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Where
28 km north-east of Kilkenny, 74 km from Dublin
Position
52.8490° N, 6.9939° W
Roads
R430
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
693 buildings, 4 streets, 21 named places in 26 kinds
Killeshin graveyard
Killeshin graveyard·A.-K. D., CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Killeshin motte (1)
Killeshin motte (1)·A.-K. D., CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Killeshin in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the twelfth century to 1973. That is not a history of Killeshin, 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.

the twelfth century1973Round Tower (site of)Carlow County Museum
The twelfth century
The thirteenth century
  • the 1210sCarlow CastleCastles · 4.2 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland, national monument of Ireland
The eighteenth century
The twentieth 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 68 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R430 running through Killeshin.

By bus or train

2 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: Killeshin National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Killeshin?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 28 km north-east of Kilkenny and 74 km from Dublin, on the R430.
How big is Killeshin?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 693 buildings, 4 named streets and 21 named places, which by building count makes it the 14th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Killeshin?
68 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Killeshin National School, Killeshin Moat (motte) and Round Tower (site of).
How do you get to Killeshin?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Carlow Kilkenny Wicklow and 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.
693
buildings on the model
4
named streets
21
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 Q2358900). 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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