[2] Local industries include a large Musgrave Group distribution centre,[3] which supplies SuperValu and Centra stores across much of the country.

The saint is traditionally said to have been a sister of St. Kevin of Glendalough; by occupation, she was an embroiderer of church vestments, including those for St. Colmcille.

A holy well dedicated to Coca, formerly thought to be lost in the back-yards of Kilcock, is believed locally to be in the area behind the Permanent TSB building,[citation needed] and her feast is remembered on 6 June.

[4] In the 8th century, there was a battle between rival kings near the church of St. Coca, then in the territory of Carbury and close to the border between Leinster and Meath.

The tolls and duties of Kilcock Fairs were shared between the Wogans of Rathcoffey and the Eustaces of Castlemartin, Kilcullen, County Kildare.

There is a National Roads Authority (NRA) plan to create an outer orbital motorway, which would extend 80 km from Naas to Drogheda, via Kilcock.

The railway arrived in Kilcock on 28 June 1847, but the station closed on 1 July 1848,[13] as it was sited on a 1% (1 in 100) gradient which the locomotives of the day found difficult to start off from.

[14] As of November 2016[update], construction was underway by the county council to pave a pedestrian and cycling path along the riverbank.

[17] Located on Church Street, it accommodates over 900 students from Kilcock and surrounding areas including Donadea, Summerhill, Enfield, Moynalvey and Mulhussey.

[citation needed] The town's library features mementos of the poet Teresa Brayton who was born in Kilbrook.

[19] Also nearby, in Calgath, County Meath, is "Bridestream" (an 18th-century house which is the headquarters to a local business),[citation needed] and "Larchill", an 18th-century Ferme Ornée (ornamental farm).

There is also a 8-acre (32,000 m2) lake with two island follies, a formal walled garden with shell-lined tower and a model gothic farmyard.