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County Clare · Munster

About Clarecastle

Clarecastle, Droíchead an Chláir in Irish, is a village in County Clare, 28 km north-west of Limerick. It stands on the N85, R458 and L4172. The map gives it 1,601 buildings and 47 named streets, with 25 places named on them in 33 kinds, and 148 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 7th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Where
28 km north-west of Limerick, 190 km from Dublin
Position
52.8156° N, 8.9665° W
Roads
N85, R458 and L4172
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
1,601 buildings, 47 streets, 25 named places in 33 kinds
The factory of Roche in Clarecastle
The factory of Roche in Clarecastle·The Banner, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Modern bridge over the river Fergus in Clarecastle
Modern bridge over the river Fergus in Clarecastle·The Banner, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Clarecastle in order

9 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the twelfth century to 2000. That is not a history of Clarecastle, 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.

the twelfth century2000Clare AbbeyClare Museum
The twelfth century
  • the twelfth centuryClare AbbeyHistoric churches · 1.5 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • the twelfth centuryKillone AbbeyAbbeys · 2.8 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fifteenth century
  • the fifteenth centuryQuin AbbeyHistoric churches · 7.0 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • the 1490sBallyhannon CastleCastles · 4.2 km from the centre
The sixteenth century
The nineteenth 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 148 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N85, R458 and L4172 running through Clarecastle.

By bus or train

4 lines call at 11 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Clarecastle?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 28 km north-west of Limerick and 190 km from Dublin, on the N85, R458 and L4172.
How big is Clarecastle?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,601 buildings, 47 named streets and 25 named places, which by building count makes it the 7th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.
What is there to see in Clarecastle?
148 things the map records in and around it, the closest being G.A.A. Commemorative Stone, Clarecastle Playground and Irish Famine Memorial.
How do you get to Clarecastle?
4 bus and train lines call at 11 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.
1,601
buildings on the model
47
named streets
25
named places
33
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 Q3776281). 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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