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County Tipperary · Munster

About Gortnahoe

Gortnahoe, Gort na hUamha in Irish, is a village in County Tipperary, 24 km west of Kilkenny. The map gives it 493 buildings and 5 named streets, with 9 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 137 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 42th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Where
24 km west of Kilkenny, 117 km from Dublin
Position
52.6757° N, 7.6024° W
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
493 buildings, 5 streets, 9 named places in 20 kinds
Second of two milk churn stands in Kilcooleyabbey with a beautiful gate in the background, possible leading to one of the lodges into the Kilcooley Estate. close-up
Second of two milk churn stands in Kilcooleyabbey with a beautiful gate in the background, possible leading to one of the lodges into the Kilcooley Estate. close-up·A.-K. D., CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Gortnahoo, County Tipperary, near to Gortnahoo, Rathbeg Bridge and Tranagh, Tipperary, Ireland. On the R689.
Gortnahoo, County Tipperary, near to Gortnahoo, Rathbeg Bridge and Tranagh, Tipperary, Ireland. On the R689.·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Tipperary 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.

435,553122,812167,89518412022

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 137 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Gortnahoe; 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

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

Questions people ask

Where is Gortnahoe?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 24 km west of Kilkenny and 117 km from Dublin.
How big is Gortnahoe?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 493 buildings, 5 named streets and 9 named places, which by building count makes it the 42th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Gortnahoe?
137 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Gortnahoe Playground, Rathbeg and Lough Walkeen.
How do you get to Gortnahoe?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bernard Kavanagh & Sons.
Has County Tipperary grown or shrunk?
The census counted 435,553 people in the county in 1841 and 167,895 in 2022.
493
buildings on the model
5
named streets
9
named places
20
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 Q2084365). 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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