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About Shillelagh

Shillelagh, Síol Éalaigh in Irish, is a village in County Wicklow, 49 km east of Kilkenny. It stands on the R725. The map gives it 382 buildings and 9 named streets, with 15 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 63 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 27th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.

Population
390, as the map records it
Where
49 km east of Kilkenny, 69 km from Dublin
Position
52.7539° N, 6.5371° W, 65 m above sea level
Roads
R725
Governed
Wicklow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
382 buildings, 9 streets, 15 named places in 18 kinds
Shillelagh church yard
Shillelagh church yard·Stephen Darlington, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Bay Bridge, Shillelagh
Bay Bridge, Shillelagh·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 63 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R725 running through Shillelagh.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 4 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 Shillelagh?
In County Wicklow, in the province of Leinster, 49 km east of Kilkenny and 69 km from Dublin, on the R725.
How big is Shillelagh?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 382 buildings, 9 named streets and 15 named places, which by building count makes it the 27th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.
What is there to see in Shillelagh?
63 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Site of Fever Hospital, Mill Wood and Mill Wood.
How do you get to Shillelagh?
3 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and 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.
382
buildings on the model
9
named streets
15
named places
18
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 Q2090806). 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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