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About Ballycannan

Ballycannan is a village in County Clare, 5 km north of Limerick, with 651 people at the 2006 census. The map gives it 134 buildings and 4 named streets, with 2 places named on them in 22 kinds, and 129 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 42th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Population
651 at the 2006 census
Where
5 km north of Limerick, 175 km from Dublin
Position
52.7024° N, 8.6500° W
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
134 buildings, 4 streets, 2 named places in 22 kinds
Cut hay near Quinspool
Cut hay near Quinspool·David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Ballycannan in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1210 to 1978. That is not a history of Ballycannan, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

12101978King John's CastleHunt Museum
The thirteenth century
The fifteenth century
The seventeenth century
The twentieth century

County Clare since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

286,39473,597127,93818412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 129 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Ballycannan; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 6 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballycannan?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 5 km north of Limerick and 175 km from Dublin.
How big is Ballycannan?
651 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 134 buildings and 4 named streets.
What is there to see in Ballycannan?
129 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Saint Patrick's Church, Ardnacrusha Tours and Fairy Garden.
How do you get to Ballycannan?
2 bus and train lines call at 6 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Limerick Clare.
Has County Clare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 286,394 people in the county in 1841 and 127,938 in 2022.
134
buildings on the model
4
named streets
2
named places
22
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q26718360). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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