St. Abhan’s Church

St. Abhan’s Church is a church in County Laois, Leinster. St. Abhan’s Church is situated nearby to the hamlet Crettyard, as well as near the village Newtown.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St Longory’s Well and Colliery Church.

St Longory’s Well

Spring

Photo: A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0.

St Longory’s Well is a spring, which is situated 3 km south of St. Abhan’s Church.

Colliery Church

Church

Photo: liam murphy, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Colliery Church is situated 3 km southwest of St. Abhan’s Church.

Aughatubbrid, also known as Chatsworth, is a townland in County Kilkenny, Ireland. The townland, which has an area of approximately 6.63 square kilometres, is in the civil parish of Castlecomer. Church Well is situated 4 km northwest of St. Abhan’s Church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Crettyard and Newtown.

Crettyard

Hamlet

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Crettyard is a hamlet in County Laois, Ireland. It is on the border with County Kilkenny, at the junction of the N78 and the R431 roads. Carlow town is 14 km to the east, and Kilkenny city is 22 km to the south.

Newtown

Village

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Newtown or Newtown Cross is a village in County Laois, Ireland. It is within the townlands of Clonbrock and Doonane. Newtown lies close to the border between Counties Laois and Kilkenny at the point where the R430 regional road from Abbeyleix to Carlow crosses the N78 from Kilkenny to Athy.

Castlecomer

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Castlecomer is the largest town in north County Kilkenny in southeast Ireland, with a population in 2022 of 1500. In Irish Caisleán an Chomair is "castle of the confluence", meaning the Norman castle at the confluence of the small rivers Dinin, Brocagh and Cloghogue.

St. Abhan’s Church

Type: Church
Categories: building and religion
Location: County Laois, Leinster, East Coast and Midlands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.85659° or 52° 51′ 24″ north

Longitude

-7.13214° or 7° 7′ 56″ west

Open location code

9C4JVV49+J4

OpenStreetMap ID

way 886805544

OpenStreetMap feature

building=church

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