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About Kilcoole

Kilcoole, Cill Chomhghaill in Irish, is a village in County Wicklow, 30 km south-east of Dublin, with 4,239 people at the 2016 census. It stands on the R761 and L1048. The map gives it 1,828 buildings and 55 named streets, with 107 places named on them in 66 kinds, and 97 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 8th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.

Population
4,239 at the 2016 census
Where
30 km south-east of Dublin
Position
53.1054° N, 6.0644° W, 8 m above sea level
Roads
R761 and L1048
Governed
Wicklow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,828 buildings, 55 streets, 107 named places in 66 kinds
A view of Kilcoole Church.
A view of Kilcoole Church.·瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 97 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R761 and L1048 running through Kilcoole. 16 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 4 lines call at 28 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

6 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Kilcoole?
In County Wicklow, in the province of Leinster, 30 km south-east of Dublin and 30 km from Dublin, on the R761 and L1048.
How big is Kilcoole?
4,239 people at the 2016 census. On the map it is 1,828 buildings and 55 named streets.
What is there to see in Kilcoole?
97 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Kilcoole Church, Little Tern Park and Rock of Kilcoole.
How do you get to Kilcoole?
4 bus and train lines call at 28 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus, Go-Ahead Ireland and Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Wicklow grown or shrunk?
The census counted 126,143 people in the county in 1841 and 155,851 in 2022.
1,828
buildings on the model
55
named streets
107
named places
66
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 Q2437185). 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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