Callan
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- Type: Town with 2,480 residents
- Description: market town in County Kilkenny, Ireland
- Also known as: “Callan, County Kilkenny”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Mary’s Church and Skerry’s Castle.
St. Mary’s Church
Ruins
Photo: A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. Mary's Church is a medieval church and National Monument in Callan, Ireland.
Saint Augustine’s Well
Spring
Photo: A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Callan Augustinian Friary is an Augustinian friary in Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland. Originally founded in the 15th century, it is located in what is known locally as the "Abbey Meadow", in the north-east of the town, on the banks of the Kings River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dunnamaggin and Kells.
Dunnamaggin
Village
Dunnamaggin is a small village in the south County Kilkenny, Ireland, on the R699 road between Callan and Knocktopher, east of its intersection with the R697 between Kells and Kilmoganny. Dunnamaggin is situated 8 km southeast of Callan.
Kells
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Kilkenny is the county town of County Kilkenny in southeast Ireland, with a population of 27,000 in 2022. At its core is the medieval city founded by the Normans, and in the 1640s it was effectively the capital of Ireland. Kells is situated 8 km east of Callan.
Mullinahone
Village
Photo: Tipptop, Public domain.
Mullinahone is a village located in the barony of Slievardagh, County Tipperary in Ireland. It is also a parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly. As of 2016, the village population was 499. Mullinahone is situated 9 km southwest of Callan.
Callan
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kilkenny, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.54459° or 52° 32′ 41″ northLongitude
-7.39009° or 7° 23′ 24″ westPopulation
2,480Elevation
67 metres (220 feet)United Nations Location Code
IE LLNOpen location code
9C4JGJV5+RXOpenStreetMap ID
node 52259985OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Callan” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Callan (Kilkenny konderria)”
- Basque: “Callan”
- Cebuano: “Callan”
- Chinese: “卡倫”
- Danish: “Callan”
- Dutch: “Callan”
- French: “Callan”
- German: “Callan”
- Irish: “Callain”
- Irish: “Callainn”
- Italian: “Callan”
- Persian: “کالن، کانتی کیلکنی”
- Polish: “Callan”
- Portuguese: “Callan”
- Russian: “Каллан (Килкенни)”
- Russian: “Каллан”
- Scots: “Callan”
- Spanish: “Callan”
- Swedish: “Callan”
- Welsh: “Callan”
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Highlights include The Old Charter House and Saint Mary’s Church.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Callan”. Photo: kevin higgins, CC BY-SA 2.0.