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County Tipperary · Munster

About Killenaule

Killenaule, Cill Náile in Irish, is a town in County Tipperary, 30 km west of Kilkenny. It stands on the R689 and R691. The map gives it 1,439 buildings and 14 named streets, with 47 places named on them in 40 kinds, and 108 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 13th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Where
30 km west of Kilkenny, 128 km from Dublin
Position
52.5682° N, 7.6731° W
Roads
R689 and R691
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
1,439 buildings, 14 streets, 47 named places in 40 kinds
This five-storey ruin of a tower house is part of the Graystown Castle complex. It is on private land, please do not enter the field.
This five-storey ruin of a tower house is part of the Graystown Castle complex. It is on private land, please do not enter the field.·A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Graystown Castle near Killenaule is a tower house, a bawn and a fortified house in ruins.
Graystown Castle near Killenaule is a tower house, a bawn and a fortified house in ruins.·A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 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 108 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R689 and R691 running through Killenaule. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 8 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Scoil Ruáin, St Marys National School and Scoil Ruáin.

Questions people ask

Where is Killenaule?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 30 km west of Kilkenny and 128 km from Dublin, on the R689 and R691.
How big is Killenaule?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,439 buildings, 14 named streets and 47 named places, which by building count makes it the 13th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Killenaule?
108 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Slieveardagh Heritage Centre, Toberavoher and Killenaule Play Ground.
How do you get to Killenaule?
3 bus and train lines call at 8 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bernard Kavanagh & Sons and TFI Local Link Tipperary.
Has County Tipperary grown or shrunk?
The census counted 435,553 people in the county in 1841 and 167,895 in 2022.
1,439
buildings on the model
14
named streets
47
named places
40
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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