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About Broadford

Broadford, Áth Leathan in Irish, is a village in County Clare, 16 km north of Limerick. The map gives it 32 buildings and 0 named streets, with 11 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 133 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 50th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Where
16 km north of Limerick, 170 km from Dublin
Position
52.8055° N, 8.6338° W
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
32 buildings, 0 streets, 11 named places in 23 kinds
St. Peter's Church (2), Broadford, Co. Clare
St. Peter's Church (2), Broadford, Co. Clare·P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
St. Peter's Church (1), Broadford, Co. Clare
St. Peter's Church (1), Broadford, Co. Clare·P L Chadwick, 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 133 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Broadford National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Broadford?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 16 km north of Limerick and 170 km from Dublin.
How big is Broadford?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 32 buildings, 0 named streets and 11 named places, which by building count makes it the 50th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.
What is there to see in Broadford?
133 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lough Garr, Knocksize and Doon.
How do you get to Broadford?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by 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.
32
buildings on the model
0
named streets
11
named places
23
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 Q4972172). 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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