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About Crinkill

Crinkill, Críonchoill in Irish, is a village in County Offaly, 64 km north-west of Kilkenny. It stands on the N62. The map gives it 868 buildings and 20 named streets, with 15 places named on them in 25 kinds, and 59 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 11th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.

Where
64 km north-west of Kilkenny, 113 km from Dublin
Position
53.0779° N, 7.8987° W
Roads
N62
Governed
Offaly County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
868 buildings, 20 streets, 15 named places in 25 kinds
Riverstown, Birr geograph.org.uk 1814341
Riverstown, Birr geograph.org.uk 1814341·sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Camp, Birr, Co. Offaly (35888619112)
Camp, Birr, Co. Offaly (35888619112)·Robert French, no restrictions 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 59 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N62 running through Crinkill.

By bus or train

2 lines call 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: Crinkill National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Crinkill?
In County Offaly, in the province of Leinster, 64 km north-west of Kilkenny and 113 km from Dublin, on the N62.
How big is Crinkill?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 868 buildings, 20 named streets and 15 named places, which by building count makes it the 11th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.
What is there to see in Crinkill?
59 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Crinkill Barracks (disused), Birr Playground and Lord Snowdon.
How do you get to Crinkill?
2 bus and train lines call 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.
868
buildings on the model
20
named streets
15
named places
25
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 Q3777946). 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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