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About Coolderry

Coolderry is a village in County Offaly, 56 km north-west of Kilkenny. The map gives it 223 buildings and 3 named streets, with 4 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 65 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 35th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.

Where
56 km north-west of Kilkenny, 112 km from Dublin
Position
53.0126° N, 7.8396° W
Governed
Offaly County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
223 buildings, 3 streets, 4 named places in 18 kinds

Coolderry in order

5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the twelfth century to 1845. That is not a history of Coolderry, 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 century1845Monaincha AbbeyThe Great Telescope 'Leviathan'
The twelfth century
  • the twelfth centuryMonaincha AbbeyHistoric churches · 9.6 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • the twelfth centuryRoscrea ChurchRuins · 7.0 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The thirteenth century
The fourteenth century
  • the 1400sRoscrea AbbeyAbbeys · 7.2 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The nineteenth century

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 65 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Coolderry; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Coolderry Central School.

Questions people ask

Where is Coolderry?
In County Offaly, in the province of Leinster, 56 km north-west of Kilkenny and 112 km from Dublin.
How big is Coolderry?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 223 buildings, 3 named streets and 4 named places, which by building count makes it the 35th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.
What is there to see in Coolderry?
65 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Compton's Lough, Lough Roe and Golden Grove Wood.
How do you get to Coolderry?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Offaly grown or shrunk?
The census counted 146,857 people in the county in 1841 and 83,150 in 2022.
223
buildings on the model
3
named streets
4
named places
18
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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