Kinnegad

Kinnegad
Irish: Cionn Átha Gad
Town
Kinnegad Main Street, the former N4
Kinnegad Main Street, the former N4
Kinnegad is located in Ireland
Kinnegad
Kinnegad
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°27′18″N 7°06′04″W / 53.455°N 7.101°W / 53.455; -7.101
CountryIreland
ProvinceLeinster
CountyCounty Westmeath
Elevation
76 m (249 ft)
Population
 (2022)[1]
3,064
Irish Grid ReferenceN595453

Kinnegad or Kinagad (Irish: Cionn Átha Gad, meaning 'head of the ford of withes')[2] is a town in County Westmeath, Ireland. It is on the border with County Meath, near the junction of the M6 and the M4 motorways - two of Ireland's main east–west roads. It is roughly 60 km from the capital, Dublin.

From 1996 to 2016, there was a considerable increase in Kinnegad's population, from 517 to 2,745 inhabitants.[3] According to the 2016 census, approximately 79% of the town's housing stock (715 out of 907 households) was built between 1991 and 2010.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Kinnegad". Census 2022. CSO. 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Cionn Átha Gad/Kinnegad". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Retrieved 18 October 2021.
  3. ^ "KINNEGAD (Ireland)". City Population. Archived from the original on 16 February 2020. Retrieved 16 February 2020.