Kilmoganny, Co. Kilkenny scores 62/100 for quality of life, #44 of the 108 Irish areas BuyerIQ ranks, and its fundamentals are rated “on the up — emerging”. The median home sells for €250,000 (most €235,000–€332,500), it scores 62/100 for safety (57.6 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents), 256 people live here. It's strongest on affordability and family & community, weakest on schools & education.
Updated August 2026 · Property Price Register + 20+ official sources, refreshed daily
Below average today — but the fundamentals are turning, faster than the national trend.
These seven scores and the 62/100 are measured across the R95 Eircode area, not Kilmoganny alone — an area that takes in much of KILKENNY. A strong or weak pocket inside it can read very differently from the area average.
Ranked on quality of life alone — cost of living excluded, so the genuinely best areas rank top even though they cost more. Factor in price and Kilmoganny is #35 of 108 for value for money (most quality of life per euro).
The score is for the R95 Eircode area; the crime rate is recorded per Garda division (Kilkenny/Carlow). Neither is measured for Kilmoganny on its own.
256 people.
Population is for Kilmoganny itself (Census 2022, Small-Area boundary).
Not ranked: under 2,000 residents, one pub swings the per-head figure too far.
Census profile and the affluence rating are Electoral Division figures — the CSO/Pobal area around Kilmoganny, which is why this unemployment rate can differ from the one behind the quality-of-life scores above (those are Eircode-area wide).
Kilmoganny, Co. Kilkenny, scores 62/100 on BuyerIQ's Quality of Life composite (cost of living excluded) — #44 of the 108 areas we rank. It's strongest on affordability and family & community.
Kilmoganny scores 62/100 on safety, ~57.6 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents.
The median sale price in Kilmoganny over the last 24 months was €250,000, most between €235,000 and €332,500 (Property Price Register).
Kilmoganny is rated "On the up — emerging" — unemployment fell just 2 points — lagging the national fall, third-level education up 9 points — faster than nationally, recorded crime falling.
4 planning applications were lodged within Kilmoganny in the last 12 months, covering 3 residential units (9 on record) — measured per town, not just at county level.
Kilmoganny scores 78/100 for families and community.
Kilmoganny scores 43/100 for schools and education, with 1 school in the area.
Kilmoganny is about 32 minutes by road from Waterford.
Sale prices from the Property Price Register (rolling 24 months). Quality of Life averages seven equal-weighted dimensions from 40+ metrics across 13 public datasets (CSO census + SAPS, Garda crime, SEAI, EPA, DES schools, GTFS). Population is CSO Census 2022; the “on the up” trajectory compares 2016→2022. Figures refresh daily · an area assessment, not advice on a specific property. Updated August 2026.