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County Offaly · Leinster

About Killyon

Killyon is a village in County Offaly, 62 km north-west of Kilkenny. The map gives it 298 buildings and 2 named streets, with 1 place named on them in 15 kinds, and 57 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 32th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.

Where
62 km north-west of Kilkenny, 106 km from Dublin
Position
53.1022° N, 7.8029° W
Governed
Offaly County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
298 buildings, 2 streets, 1 named place in 15 kinds

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 57 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

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 Killyon?
In County Offaly, in the province of Leinster, 62 km north-west of Kilkenny and 106 km from Dublin.
How big is Killyon?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 298 buildings, 2 named streets and 1 named place, which by building count makes it the 32th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.
What is there to see in Killyon?
57 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Carrolls Castle, Killaun Bog Boardwalk and Seir Kieran's Abbey.
How do you get to Killyon?
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.
298
buildings on the model
2
named streets
1
named places
15
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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