Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 664 in Co. Kilkenny.
A typical home sold for €322,900, or 5.9 years of the town’s median household income. Public transport, bikes and feet take 6% of commuters to work. Residents born outside Ireland: 8%. Just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over.
Irish towns are graded from 1,000 residents, which leaves Bennettsbridge out for now.
The 3 things Bennettsbridge does most differently from other towns.
The record adds 2 archaeological sites.
Homes built before 1919: 6%, against 3% across Irish towns.
Surveyors for the national inventory recorded 6 buildings in Bennettsbridge, each of regional importance. Archaeologists have recorded 2 sites here.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bennettsbridge.
Families in Bennettsbridge have one school within 3 km. 206 pupils attend the one school within 3 km of the town.
| School | Level | Pupils | Ethos |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bennettsbridge National SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 206 | Catholic |
| Schools within 3 km | Bennettsbridge | Co. Kilkenny | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teach through Irish | 0% | 6% | 8% |
| In the DEIS scheme | 0% | 11% | 35% |
| Pupils since 2019/20 | +7% | +4% | +4% |
Department of Education school lists, 2025/26 (preliminary) · no results are published by school · Ireland doesn’t publish results for individual schools, so none of these carries a letter.
Some 1.6% of homes in Bennettsbridge are estimated to exceed the radon reference level. Landslides: none of Bennettsbridge lies in a high-susceptibility zone. Low ground by water holds almost none of its homes.
| Share of homes | Bennettsbridge | Co. Kilkenny | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| In high-radon areas | 0% | 84% | 0% |
| On high landslide susceptibility | 0% | 0% | 0% |
EPA radon map, GSI landslide susceptibility and our low-lying homes estimate from OPW LiDAR.
A July afternoon in Bennettsbridge typically reaches 20.3°C. January nights bottom out at 2.3°C locally, close to Co. Kilkenny’s towns (2.3°C) and below Irish towns (2.9°C). Also worth knowing: the town gets 861 mm of rain a year.
| Climate, 1991–2020 | Bennettsbridge | Co. Kilkenny | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 20.3°C | 20.2°C | 19.9°C |
| January low | 2.3°C | 2.3°C | 2.9°C |
| Rain a year | 861 mm | 906 mm | 937 mm |
Met Éireann, 1991–2020 averages.
Weighed against its ages, disability in Bennettsbridge runs at 100 per 100 expected. 2.3% of residents described their health as bad or very bad, above Co. Kilkenny’s towns (1.8%) and Irish towns (2%) alike. Asked at the census, nearly nine in ten residents of Bennettsbridge said they were in good or very good health.
| Census 2022 | Bennettsbridge | Co. Kilkenny | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bad or very bad health | 2.3% | 1.8% | 2% |
| Unpaid carers | 5.7% | 5.2% | 5.4% |
| Good or very good health | 89% | 88% | 88% |
| With a disability | 24% | 23% | 22% |
CSO, Census 2022 general health, disability and carers · CSO life expectancy by region, 2016 · HSE medical cards, 2024 · TownRatings age-standardised ratios
Social renters account for 13% of households. 7% rent privately, below both Co. Kilkenny’s towns (19%) and Irish towns (22%).
| Housing | Bennettsbridge | Co. Kilkenny | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households owning their home | 78% | 60% | 61% |
| Households renting privately | 7% | 19% | 22% |
| Households in social housing | 13% | 19% | 13% |
| Median sale price | €323K | €289K | €350K |
Property Price Register · CSO residential prices by Eircode area · RTB rents · CSO, Census 2022 tenure · The price is for the postcode area R95, not the town alone: too few sales inside the town carry a full address.
100% of homes are within 400 m of green space, near Co. Kilkenny’s towns (96%) and higher than Irish towns (92%). Protected nature near Bennettsbridge includes River Barrow. Within 5 km, 4 waymarked trails and greenways set out.
| Outdoors | Bennettsbridge | Co. Kilkenny | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodland within 1 km | 0.5% | 3.8% | 2.7% |
| Paths per km² of town | 0.4 km per km² | 0.8 km per km² | 2.1 km per km² |
| Near a park | 100% | 96% | 92% |
OpenStreetMap parks and paths, NPWS protected sites and the National Trails Register.
Usually, November days warm to 11°C and nights cool to 4°C; Bennettsbridge’s forecast is read against that. Expect roughly 3 mm of rain today, little wind (up to 9 km/h) and a low of 5°C. Over the coming week, Thursday looks wettest, with about 13 mm of rain.
| Season | High | Low | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winter | 9°C | 2°C | 229 mm |
| Spring | 14°C | 5°C | 175 mm |
| Summer | 20°C | 11°C | 203 mm |
| Autumn | 14°C | 7°C | 254 mm |
Forecast: MET Norway (CC BY 4.0) · normals: Met Éireann, 1991–2020
64% of 15 to 64s were in work, lower than both Co. Kilkenny’s towns (68%) and Irish towns (68%). At the census, 85% of commuters went by car. The census counted 7.7% of workers working mainly from home.
| Census 2022 | Bennettsbridge | Co. Kilkenny | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| In work, 15 to 64 | 64% | 68% | 68% |
| Unemployment rate | 12% | 10% | 9.2% |
| Average trip | 25.7 min | 23.8 min | 27.6 min |
| Trips under 15 minutes | 35% | 39% | 31% |
CSO, Census 2022 travel to work, work and education · CSO Geographical Profiles of Income 2022 · Live Register · Census day was 3 April 2022, with working from home still common; shares are of those who travelled.
19% are under 15, below Co. Kilkenny’s towns (24%) and close to Irish towns (20%). Degrees are held by 25% of adults.
Women make up 50.9% of Bennettsbridge
338 women and 326 men live here; across Ireland, women are 50.6%.
| Bennettsbridge | Co. Kilkenny | Ireland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 24% | 20% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 11% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 29% | 29% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 24% | 24% |
| 65+ | 22% | 14% | 14% |
| Primary or none | 12% | 9.4% | 9.7% |
| Lower secondary | 23% | 14% | 14% |
| Leaving Cert | 36% | 37% | 35% |
| Diploma or cert | 4.6% | 6.1% | 5.8% |
| Degree or higher | 25% | 31% | 36% |
CSO, Census 2022 · Co. Kilkenny and Ireland: the median of their towns of 2,500+
Local government for Bennettsbridge is Kilkenny County Council alone; Ireland has a single tier. Fianna Fáil lead Kilkenny County Council with 11 of 24 seats, but no party has a majority: 13 are needed. In the Dáil, Bennettsbridge is part of Carlow-Kilkenny, which elects 5 TDs.
| Turnout | Bennettsbridge | Co. Kilkenny | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local elections, June 2024 | 54% | 50% | 46% |
| General election, November 2024 | 58% | 58% | 59% |
Department of Housing count sheets, 2024
Archaeologists have recorded 2 sites here. Homes from before 1919 make up 6.4% of the total, above Co. Kilkenny’s towns (4.5%) and Irish towns (3.4%) alike. Surveyors for the national inventory recorded 6 buildings in Bennettsbridge, each of regional importance.
| Heritage | Bennettsbridge | Co. Kilkenny | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inventory buildings per 10,000 residents | 90 | 216 | 48 |
| Archaeological sites on the record | 2 | 84 | 11 |
| Homes built before 1919 | 6.4% | 4.5% | 3.4% |
NIAH, the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · Sites and Monuments Record · CSO, Census 2022 homes by year built
Castles, abbeys, gardens, museums and days out in and near Bennettsbridge. Best known first.
17 notable people were born in Bennettsbridge.
Urban area in Co. Kilkenny
Bennettsbridge has 664 people, in the area of Kilkenny County Council. TownRatings uses the CSO’s 2022 Urban Areas as Ireland’s towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a county or a council area, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from Tailte Éireann’s boundaries and the CSO’s Census 2022 (CC BY 4.0)
The nearest places of 1,000 or more. Boundaries: Tailte Éireann, CSO Urban Areas 2022 and Electoral Divisions.
| Town | People | km | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bennettsbridge | 664 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Thomastown | 2,305 | 7.6 | — | B | B+ | C− |
| Kilkenny | 27,184 | 8.4 | B+ | B+ | C | B |
| Callan | 2,678 | 15 | A+ | A− | A | B |
| Graiguenamanagh-Tinnahinch | 1,506 | 16 | — | A | A+ | C |
| Muinebeag (Bagenalstown) Carlow | 2,945 | 19 | B+ | B+ | A− | C |
People: CSO, Census 2022. Distances: centre to centre.
The median age in Bennettsbridge is 42.1, against 37.6 in the median of Irish towns.
8% mostly work from home, and 35% of journeys take under 15 minutes.
Bennettsbridge had 664 people at the 2022 census, up from 627 in 2016: 5.9% more, against 7.6% in the median of Irish towns.
Sources: CSO, Census 2022 Small Area Population Statistics (CC BY 4.0) · Tailte Éireann, Urban Areas and Electoral Divisions 2022 (CC BY 4.0). Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).