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About Cratloe

Cratloe is a village in County Clare, 10 km north-west of Limerick, with 643 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the N18, L3038 and L3102. The map gives it 146 buildings and 8 named streets, with 14 places named on them in 28 kinds, and 163 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 41th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Population
643 at the 2006 census
Where
10 km north-west of Limerick, 182 km from Dublin
Position
52.6987° N, 8.7628° W
Area
20.94 km²
Roads
N18, L3038 and L3102
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
146 buildings, 8 streets, 14 named places in 28 kinds
Cratloe railway station (site), County Clare (geograph 6348159)
Cratloe railway station (site), County Clare (geograph 6348159)·Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
House by the fast road
House by the fast road·Neville Goodman, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Cratloe in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1210 to 1978. That is not a history of Cratloe, 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 fifteenth 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 163 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N18, L3038 and L3102 running through Cratloe. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 6 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: St. John's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Cratloe?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 10 km north-west of Limerick and 182 km from Dublin, on the N18, L3038 and L3102.
How big is Cratloe?
643 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 146 buildings and 8 named streets.
What is there to see in Cratloe?
163 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Calvary and Grotto, Lough Gorteen and Cratloe Community Playground.
How do you get to Cratloe?
3 bus and train lines call at 6 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.
146
buildings on the model
8
named streets
14
named places
28
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 Q2566680). 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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