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About Monavea

Monavea is a village in County Laois, 25 km north-east of Kilkenny. It stands on the R431. The map gives it 350 buildings and 1 named street, with 8 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 88 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 31th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Where
25 km north-east of Kilkenny, 78 km from Dublin
Position
52.8476° N, 7.0811° W
Roads
R431
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
350 buildings, 1 street, 8 named places in 19 kinds

Monavea in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the twelfth century to 1973. That is not a history of Monavea, 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 · 9.9 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland, national monument of Ireland
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 88 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R431 running through Monavea.

By bus or train

1 line calls 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: Mayo National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Monavea?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 25 km north-east of Kilkenny and 78 km from Dublin, on the R431.
How big is Monavea?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 350 buildings, 1 named street and 8 named places, which by building count makes it the 31th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Monavea?
88 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Dowling's Well, Turra Hill and Jake's Hill.
How do you get to Monavea?
1 bus and train line calls 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.
350
buildings on the model
1
named streets
8
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. 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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