Kilkenny House Prices, Rents & Yields
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Kilkenny house prices: the median home sold for €352k over the last 12 months (+8.7% year-on-year). The average rent is €1,216 a month, a gross rental yield of 4.1%. Across 4 Kilkenny towns, the median ranges from €248,000 in Castlecomer to €395,000 in Thomastown.
Official Property Price Register, CSO & RTB data · 4 towns · updated July 2026
Kilkenny in Leinster: its €352k median is the 7th-highest of Leinster's 12 counties, behind Dublin and Wicklow and Kildare and Meath and Louth and Laois.
Check the maximum legal rent increase -- the March 2026 cap (2% or CPI, whichever is lower), computed from official CSO figures.
Compare Kilkenny towns
The cheapest, highest-yielding, fastest-rising and best-connected towns in Kilkenny. Tap any town for its full living-in profile.
- 1. Castlecomer€248k
- 2. Kilkenny€320k
- 3. Callan€344k
- 4. Thomastown€395k
- 1. Thomastown+42.9%
- 2. Callan+14.6%
- 3. Castlecomer+8.8%
- 4. Kilkenny+6.7%
Year-on-year figures for the smallest towns move on thin sale counts, so treat the steepest risers as indicative.
Kilkenny at a glance
| Measure | Kilkenny |
|---|---|
| Median sale price (12 mo) | €352k |
| Year on year (CSO RPPI) | +8.7% |
| Average monthly rent | €1,216 |
| Gross rental yield | 4.1% |
Towns in Kilkenny
Median sale price (with a bar relative to the dearest town here), average rent and gross yield, from the Property Price Register and RTB. Tap a linked town for its full report — recent sales, year-by-year prices and rental yield.
| Town | Median | Relative | Rent | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomastown | €395,000 | €1,341 | 4.1% | |
| Callan | €343,891 | – | – | |
| Kilkenny | €320,000 | €1,216 | 4.6% | |
| Castlecomer | €248,000 | – | – |
A dash (–) means too few recent sales or rentals in that town to publish a reliable figure.
County context
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Population (2022 Census) | 104,160 |
| Population change 2016 to 2022 | +5.0% |
| Disposable income per person (index, State = 100) | 89.4 |
| New dwelling permissions (South-East region, 2017) | 292 thousand m² |
Planning permissions are reported at NUTS3 region level; counties in this region share a figure.
Sources: CSO F1001, CIA02, BHQ09. CC-BY 4.0.
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Sources: Property Price Register (PSRA), CSO RPPI, RTB Rent Index via CSO. All CC-BY.