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About Doolin

Doolin, Dúlainn in Irish, is a village in County Clare, 36 km south-west of Galway. It stands on the R459 and R479. The map gives it 733 buildings and 7 named streets, with 99 places named on them in 40 kinds, and 90 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 11th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Where
36 km south-west of Galway, 211 km from Dublin
Position
53.0163° N, 9.3776° W, 20 m above sea level
Roads
R459 and R479
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
733 buildings, 7 streets, 99 named places in 40 kinds
Doolin - Fisher Street - Village Area - Colourful Buildings at East End of Street
Doolin - Fisher Street - Village Area - Colourful Buildings at East End of Street·Suzanne Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Doolin - Fisher Street - Village Area - O'Brien's Knitwear & Crafts
Doolin - Fisher Street - Village Area - O'Brien's Knitwear & Crafts·Suzanne Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Doolin in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the fifteenth century to 1808. That is not a history of Doolin, 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 fifteenth century1808Ballinalacken CastleMoher Tower
The fifteenth century
The sixteenth century
The nineteenth century
  • 1808Moher TowerRuins · 9.7 km from the centre · Record of Monuments and Places

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 90 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R459 and R479 running through Doolin. 6 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

4 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: Doolin National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Doolin?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 36 km south-west of Galway and 211 km from Dublin, on the R459 and R479.
How big is Doolin?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 733 buildings, 7 named streets and 99 named places, which by building count makes it the 11th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.
What is there to see in Doolin?
90 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Killilagh Church, Aughavinna Fort and Doonagore Castle.
How do you get to Doolin?
4 bus and train lines call at 6 stops here in the published timetable, run by Burren and Cliffs Explorer, 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.
733
buildings on the model
7
named streets
99
named places
40
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 Q174802). 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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