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About Cadamstown

Cadamstown is a village in County Offaly, 60 km north-west of Kilkenny. It stands on the R421. The map gives it 212 buildings and 4 named streets, with 2 places named on them in 12 kinds, and 68 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 36th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.

Where
60 km north-west of Kilkenny, 96 km from Dublin
Position
53.1271° N, 7.6603° W
Roads
R421
Governed
Offaly County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
212 buildings, 4 streets, 2 named places in 12 kinds
Letter House, Cadamstown, Co. Offaly (1)
Letter House, Cadamstown, Co. Offaly (1)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The remains of Letter parish church
The remains of Letter parish church·Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Offaly 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.

146,85751,30883,15018412022

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 R421 running through Cadamstown.

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

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Cadamstown?
In County Offaly, in the province of Leinster, 60 km north-west of Kilkenny and 96 km from Dublin, on the R421.
How big is Cadamstown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 212 buildings, 4 named streets and 2 named places, which by building count makes it the 36th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.
What is there to see in Cadamstown?
68 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Portal Dolmen, Ardara Bridge and Giant's Wedge.
How do you get to Cadamstown?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Laois Offaly.
Has County Offaly grown or shrunk?
The census counted 146,857 people in the county in 1841 and 83,150 in 2022.
212
buildings on the model
4
named streets
2
named places
12
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 Q3777982). 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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