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About Newtown Mount Kennedy

Newtown Mount Kennedy, Baile an Chinnéidigh in Irish, is a village in County Wicklow, 31 km south of Dublin, with 2,548 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the N11, R772 and L1037. The map gives it 1,699 buildings and 40 named streets, with 42 places named on them in 47 kinds, and 103 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 11th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.

Population
2,548 at the 2006 census
Where
31 km south of Dublin
Position
53.0895° N, 6.1110° W, 82 m above sea level
Roads
N11, R772, L1037, L1048, L1051 and L1551
Governed
Wicklow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,699 buildings, 40 streets, 42 named places in 47 kinds
The Village Inn
The Village Inn·Michael Dibb, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Catholic church
Catholic church·Michael Dibb, 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 103 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N11, R772, L1037, L1048, L1051 and L1551 running through Newtown Mount Kennedy.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 14 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

4 school or colleges on the map: St. Catherines School, Newtownmountkennedy Primary School, Newtownmountkennedy National School and Woodstock Educate Together.

Questions people ask

Where is Newtown Mount Kennedy?
In County Wicklow, in the province of Leinster, 31 km south of Dublin and 31 km from Dublin, on the N11, R772 and L1037.
How big is Newtown Mount Kennedy?
2,548 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 1,699 buildings and 40 named streets.
What is there to see in Newtown Mount Kennedy?
103 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Gallows Hill, Mount Kennedy and Ringfort.
How do you get to Newtown Mount Kennedy?
3 bus and train lines call at 14 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and Go-Ahead Ireland.
Has County Wicklow grown or shrunk?
The census counted 126,143 people in the county in 1841 and 155,851 in 2022.
1,699
buildings on the model
40
named streets
42
named places
47
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 Q1893671). 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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