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County Westmeath · Leinster

About Kilbeggan

Kilbeggan, Cill Bheagáin in Irish, is a town in County Westmeath, 81 km north of Kilkenny. It stands on the R389 and R446. The map gives it 1,675 buildings and 18 named streets, with 48 places named on them in 40 kinds, and 77 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 5th largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.

Where
81 km north of Kilkenny, 82 km from Dublin
Position
53.3681° N, 7.4980° W
Roads
R389 and R446
Governed
Westmeath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,675 buildings, 18 streets, 48 named places in 40 kinds
Distillerie de Kilbeggan
Distillerie de Kilbeggan·Serge Ottaviani, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kilbeggan Whiskey Distillery ca 1905
Kilbeggan Whiskey Distillery ca 1905·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, public domain via Wikimedia Commons

County Westmeath 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.

141,30052,86196,22118412022

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 77 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R389 and R446 running through Kilbeggan. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

7 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Kilbeggan Campus, Convent of Mercy Secondary School and Meán Scoil An Chlochair.

Questions people ask

Where is Kilbeggan?
In County Westmeath, in the province of Leinster, 81 km north of Kilkenny and 82 km from Dublin, on the R389 and R446.
How big is Kilbeggan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,675 buildings, 18 named streets and 48 named places, which by building count makes it the 5th largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.
What is there to see in Kilbeggan?
77 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Locke's Distillery Museum, School Grounds and St. James' Park.
How do you get to Kilbeggan?
7 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Allen's Bus Hire, Bus Éireann and Citylink.
Has County Westmeath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 141,300 people in the county in 1841 and 96,221 in 2022.
1,675
buildings on the model
18
named streets
48
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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