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About Newtown

Newtown is a village in County Laois, 25 km north of Kilkenny. It stands on the R430. The map gives it 547 buildings and 4 named streets, with 6 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 85 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 18th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Where
25 km north of Kilkenny, 78 km from Dublin
Position
52.8630° N, 7.1113° W
Roads
R430
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
547 buildings, 4 streets, 6 named places in 19 kinds
The Pub at Newtown
The Pub at Newtown·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Newtown Crossroads Pub
Newtown Crossroads Pub·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 85 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R430 running through Newtown.

By bus or train

3 lines call 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: Newtown National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Newtown?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 25 km north of Kilkenny and 78 km from Dublin, on the R430.
How big is Newtown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 547 buildings, 4 named streets and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 18th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Newtown?
85 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Turra Hill, Dowling's Well and Tobernacrow.
How do you get to Newtown?
3 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Slieve Bloom Coach Tours, 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.
547
buildings on the model
4
named streets
6
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 Q4328376). 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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