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About Bunratty

Bunratty is a village in County Clare, 13 km west of Limerick. It stands on the N18 and L3040. The map gives it 105 buildings and 5 named streets, with 33 places named on them in 37 kinds, and 122 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 43th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Where
13 km west of Limerick, 186 km from Dublin
Position
52.6967° N, 8.8156° W
Roads
N18 and L3040
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
105 buildings, 5 streets, 33 named places in 37 kinds
Bunratty - Access Road to Derelict Bunratty Church & Graveyard
Bunratty - Access Road to Derelict Bunratty Church & Graveyard·Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Bunratty - Gate to Derelict Bunratty Church & Graveyard
Bunratty - Gate to Derelict Bunratty Church & Graveyard·Joseph Mischyshyn, 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 122 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N18 and L3040 running through Bunratty.

By bus or train

5 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 Bunratty?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 13 km west of Limerick and 186 km from Dublin, on the N18 and L3040.
How big is Bunratty?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 105 buildings, 5 named streets and 33 named places, which by building count makes it the 43th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.
What is there to see in Bunratty?
122 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Church, Bunratty Castle and Bunratty Castle and Folk Park.
How do you get to Bunratty?
5 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and Dublin Coach.
Has County Clare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 286,394 people in the county in 1841 and 127,938 in 2022.
105
buildings on the model
5
named streets
33
named places
37
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 Q4997899). 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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