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About Vicarstown

Vicarstown, Baile an Bhiocáire in Irish, is a village in County Laois, 46 km north of Kilkenny. It stands on the R427. The map gives it 287 buildings and 7 named streets, with 6 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 142 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 34th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Where
46 km north of Kilkenny, 64 km from Dublin
Position
53.0515° N, 7.0854° W
Roads
R427
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
287 buildings, 7 streets, 6 named places in 21 kinds
This stone aqueduct carries a path, the Barrow branch of the Grand Canal, and a road over the Stradbally River, just south of Vicarstown, County Laois, Ireland
This stone aqueduct carries a path, the Barrow branch of the Grand Canal, and a road over the Stradbally River, just south of Vicarstown, County Laois, Ireland·Andrewmc, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
This stone aqueduct carries a path, the Barrow branch of the Grand Canal, and a road over the Stradbally River, just south of Vicarstown, County Laois, Ireland
This stone aqueduct carries a path, the Barrow branch of the Grand Canal, and a road over the Stradbally River, just south of Vicarstown, County Laois, Ireland·Andrewmc, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Vicarstown in order

5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the thirteenth century to 2016. That is not a history of Vicarstown, 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 thirteenth century2016Woodstock CastleErnest Shackleton
The thirteenth century
The sixteenth century
  • the sixteenth centuryWhite CastleCastles · 9.4 km from the centre
The twentieth century
The twenty-first 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 142 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R427 running through Vicarstown.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Vicarstown?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 46 km north of Kilkenny and 64 km from Dublin, on the R427.
How big is Vicarstown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 287 buildings, 7 named streets and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 34th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Vicarstown?
142 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Waterfall, Dunrally and Bawn Hill.
How do you get to Vicarstown?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the R427.
Has County Laois grown or shrunk?
The census counted 153,930 people in the county in 1841 and 91,877 in 2022.
287
buildings on the model
7
named streets
6
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 (item Q2668831). 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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