Are these actual sale prices or asking prices?

These are actual sale prices for Kilkenny from the official Property Price Register — what buyers really paid, not advertised asking prices. The median over the last 12 months was €316,000.

How current is the data?

It is rebuilt from the Property Price Register as new sales are registered. The latest recorded sale was 12 June 2026.

What is the rental yield in Kilkenny?

The gross rental yield in Kilkenny is about 4.6% — average rent of €1,216/month against a median sale price of €316,000. The estimated net yield after costs is 3.6%.

Leinster Insider › Kilkenny › Kilkenny (R95 area)

Kilkenny House Prices & Rents

1,782 Property Price Register sales · rents Q4 2025 · latest 12 Jun 2026

Median sale price (last 12 months)

€316,000

509 sales · South-East prices +8.7% year-on-year (CSO mix-adjusted)

12 homes sold in Kilkenny in June 2026 (latest data) — see the Leinster feed →

CSO official benchmark — Kilkenny median: €351,720 (mix-adjusted, 12 mo to 2026-04). Town figure is local detail.

Avg rent/mo

€1,216

+6.7% YoY

Gross yield

4.6%

rent ÷ price

Net yield (est.)

3.6%

after ~20% costs + LPT

New build

€400,000

Second-hand

€306,500

Over the last 12 months 509 homes sold in Kilkenny at a median of €316,000. That sits below the Kilkenny benchmark of €351,720. Across the South-East region, CSO mix-adjusted house prices are +8.7% year-on-year. New builds sold at a median €400,000 versus €306,500 for second-hand homes. At an average rent of €1,216 a month, that is a gross rental yield of 4.6% (3.6% net of typical costs).

Who lives in Kilkenny?

Census 2022 area profile for the Kilkenny built-up area — the official built-up-area definition of the town. This is the local-area context — separate from the sale prices above, which are matched to Kilkenny addresses on the Property Price Register.

Owner-occupied

56%

40% rented

Houses/bungalows

87%

13% flats/apts

Vacant dwellings

7.7%

Census 2022

Households

10,050

Kilkenny

AFFORDABILITY

7.1× income

Kilkenny’s median sale price €316,000 is about 7.1× the local-area median gross household income of €44,232 (CSO Census 2022, electoral division).

Recent sales

Date	Address	Type	Price
11 Jun 26	12 LINTOWN PLACE, JOHNSWELL ROAD, KILKENNY	Second-hand	€293,000
11 Jun 26	3 THE RISE, CASTLEOAKS, BREAGAGH VALLEY	Second-hand	€460,000
09 Jun 26	30 WOLFE TONE ST, KILKENNY, KILKENNY	Second-hand	€282,000
08 Jun 26	18 ST FRANCIS TERRACE, KILKENNY	Second-hand	€352,000
08 Jun 26	86 LINTOWN AVE, JOHNSWELL RD, KILKENNY	Second-hand	€190,000
05 Jun 26	16 THE ARCHERS, GAS HOUSE LANE, KILKENNY	Second-hand	€221,000
05 Jun 26	2 ARCHERSFIELD, KILMAGANNY, KILKENNY	Second-hand	€292,000
05 Jun 26	9 OAK RD, DUKESMEADOWS, BENNETSBRIDGE RD	Second-hand	€490,000

Median price, year by year

2023  ███████████████████████████████ €258,000  (530)
2024  ███████████████████████████████████ €292,000  (536)
2025  ██████████████████████████████████████ €315,000  (513)
2026  █████████████████████████████████████ €305,000  (203)

Average rent by size

1-bed	2-bed	3-bed	4+ bed
€891	€1,085	€1,243	€1,487

Other Kilkenny towns

Thomastown house prices · Callan house prices · Castlecomer house prices

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Official government data only. Individual sale prices are shown exactly as recorded on the Property Price Register. Medians and yields adjust new-build prices for 13.5% VAT (the register lists new dwellings ex-VAT), which brings them within a few % of the official CSO county median. Rents: RTB via CSO.

Sources: Property Price Register (PSRA), CSO RPPI (HPM05), RTB Average Monthly Rent (RIQ02); area profile — CSO Census 2022 (Tables 6.1/6.3/6.8) + ED household income; boundary — OSi/Tailte Éireann; basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors. All CC-BY. Verify any sale at propertypriceregister.ie. Data subject? Email us for removal.