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About Kinnitty

Kinnitty, Cionn Eitigh in Irish, is a village in County Offaly, 59 km north-west of Kilkenny. It stands on the R421 and L3003. The map gives it 479 buildings and 4 named streets, with 18 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 59 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 17th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.

Where
59 km north-west of Kilkenny, 101 km from Dublin
Position
53.0977° N, 7.7205° W
Roads
R421 and L3003
Governed
Offaly County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
479 buildings, 4 streets, 18 named places in 21 kinds
Kinnitty Castle, Kinnitty, County Offaly
Kinnitty Castle, Kinnitty, County Offaly·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kinnetty Village, Birr, Co. Offaly (35209375933)
Kinnetty Village, Birr, Co. Offaly (35209375933)·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 R421 and L3003 running through Kinnitty. 2 car parks on the map.

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

1 school or college on the map: Kinnitty National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Kinnitty?
In County Offaly, in the province of Leinster, 59 km north-west of Kilkenny and 101 km from Dublin, on the R421 and L3003.
How big is Kinnitty?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 479 buildings, 4 named streets and 18 named places, which by building count makes it the 17th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.
What is there to see in Kinnitty?
59 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Drumcullen Church Ruin, Gallowshill Grove and Waypoint 1.
How do you get to Kinnitty?
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.
479
buildings on the model
4
named streets
18
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 Q2181821). 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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