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About Cloonlara

Cloonlara, Cluain Lára in Irish, is a village in County Clare, 9 km north-east of Limerick. The map gives it 952 buildings and 6 named streets, with 8 places named on them in 24 kinds, and 120 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 9th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Population
724, as the map records it
Where
9 km north-east of Limerick, 168 km from Dublin
Position
52.7222° N, 8.5539° W, 31 m above sea level
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
952 buildings, 6 streets, 8 named places in 24 kinds
Cattle near Wooden Bridge
Cattle near Wooden Bridge·David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Headrace Canal near Errina Bridge
Headrace Canal near Errina Bridge·David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Cloonlara in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1210 to 1978. That is not a history of Cloonlara, 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 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 120 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

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

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

Questions people ask

Where is Cloonlara?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 9 km north-east of Limerick and 168 km from Dublin.
How big is Cloonlara?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 952 buildings, 6 named streets and 8 named places, which by building count makes it the 9th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.
What is there to see in Cloonlara?
120 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Aharinagh Castle, Logalean Fort and Lisheen.
How do you get to Cloonlara?
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.
952
buildings on the model
6
named streets
8
named places
24
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 Q5135031). 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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