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County Wicklow · Leinster

About Coolboy

Coolboy is a village in County Wicklow, 55 km east of Kilkenny. It stands on the L3216, L3217 and L3218. The map gives it 258 buildings and 8 named streets, with 1 place named on them in 11 kinds, and 61 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 36th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.

Where
55 km east of Kilkenny, 67 km from Dublin
Position
52.7624° N, 6.4620° W, 95 m above sea level
Roads
L3216, L3217 and L3218
Governed
Wicklow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
258 buildings, 8 streets, 1 named place in 11 kinds
The road to Coolboy
The road to Coolboy·David Purchase, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The road from Shillelagh to Coolboy
The road from Shillelagh to Coolboy·David Purchase, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Wicklow 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.

155,85157,591126,14318412022

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 61 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L3216, L3217 and L3218 running through Coolboy.

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 Coolboy?
In County Wicklow, in the province of Leinster, 55 km east of Kilkenny and 67 km from Dublin, on the L3216, L3217 and L3218.
How big is Coolboy?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 258 buildings, 8 named streets and 1 named place, which by building count makes it the 36th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.
What is there to see in Coolboy?
61 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Breen's Grove, Tomnafinnoge Wood and Tomnafinnoge Wood.
How do you get to Coolboy?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Carlow Kilkenny Wicklow.
Has County Wicklow grown or shrunk?
The census counted 126,143 people in the county in 1841 and 155,851 in 2022.
258
buildings on the model
8
named streets
1
named places
11
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 Q3411420). 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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