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Athy
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Athy ( ; ) is a market town at the meeting of the River Barrow and the Grand Canal in south-west County Kildare, Ireland, 72 kilometres southwest of Dublin. A population of 11,035 (as of the 2022 census) made it the sixth largest town in Kildare and the 45th largest in the Republic of Ireland, a growth of 82% since the 2002 census.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Athy
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ga
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- River Barrow and WhitesCastle Athy.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- River Barrow, Crom-a-Boo Bridge and White's Castle
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ireland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Leinster
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- County Kildare
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2022
- Settlement.population_total
- 11,035
- Settlement.area_code_type
- Telephone area code
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Population
- 9677
- Area
- 24.82
- Elevation
- 71
- Time zone
- Western European Time
- Body of water
- Grand Canal
- Official website
- www.athy.ie
- Image
- River Barrow and WhitesCastle Athy.JPG
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- Commons category
- Athy
- Irish Grid Reference
- S680939
- historic county
- County Kildare
- twinned administrative body
- Grandvilliers
- native label
- Baile Átha Í
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- Centre of Hiberno-English
- Birth of motor racing
- Places of interest
- Population
- Transport
- Road
- Rail
- Bus
- Sport
- Twinning
- Notable people
- See also
- Further reading
- References
- External links
Athy ( ; ) is a market town at the meeting of the River Barrow and the Grand Canal in south-west County Kildare, Ireland, 72 kilometres southwest of Dublin. A population of 11,035 (as of the 2022 census) made it the sixth largest town in Kildare and the 45th largest in the Republic of Ireland, a growth of 82% since the 2002 census.
==Name== thumbnail|left|Ptolemy's map thumb|Athy Town Hall Athy or is named after a 2nd-century Celtic chieftain, Ae, who is said to have been killed on the river crossing, thus giving the town its name "the town of Ae's ford".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Athy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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