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About Bridgetown

Bridgetown is a village in County Clare, 13 km north-east of Limerick. It stands on the R466 and L3046. The map gives it 397 buildings and 6 named streets, with 6 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 74 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 22th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Where
13 km north-east of Limerick, 165 km from Dublin
Position
52.7627° N, 8.5254° W
Roads
R466 and L3046
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
397 buildings, 6 streets, 6 named places in 18 kinds
Cooneys Bar (1), Bridgetown
Cooneys Bar (1), Bridgetown·P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
O'Briensbridge Bridge
O'Briensbridge Bridge·Redmond O'Brien, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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 74 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R466 and L3046 running through Bridgetown.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 2 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 Bridgetown?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 13 km north-east of Limerick and 165 km from Dublin, on the R466 and L3046.
How big is Bridgetown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 397 buildings, 6 named streets and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 22th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.
What is there to see in Bridgetown?
74 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Tobernasool, Mc Namara's Lake and Dermot & Grania's Bed.
How do you get to Bridgetown?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Clare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 286,394 people in the county in 1841 and 127,938 in 2022.
397
buildings on the model
6
named streets
6
named places
18
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 Q4966780). 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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