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About Doonbeg

Doonbeg is a village in County Clare, 61 km west of Limerick. The map gives it 526 buildings and 0 named streets, with 6 places named on them in 12 kinds, and 41 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 18th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Where
61 km west of Limerick, 229 km from Dublin
Position
52.7309° N, 9.5297° W, 5 m above sea level
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
526 buildings, 0 streets, 6 named places in 12 kinds
Doonbeg - Main Street (N67) - Stream flowing past Residential Area into Atlantic
Doonbeg - Main Street (N67) - Stream flowing past Residential Area into Atlantic·Suzanne Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The main Altar and some of the stained glass in the Church of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven in Doonbeg, County Clare, Ireland
The main Altar and some of the stained glass in the Church of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven in Doonbeg, County Clare, Ireland·Night of the Big Wind, CC BY-SA 3.0 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 41 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

3 lines call at 3 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 Doonbeg?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 61 km west of Limerick and 229 km from Dublin.
How big is Doonbeg?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 526 buildings, 0 named streets and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 18th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.
What is there to see in Doonbeg?
41 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Doonbeg Lough, Doonbeg Lough and Doonmore Castle.
How do you get to Doonbeg?
3 bus and train lines call at 3 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.
526
buildings on the model
0
named streets
6
named places
12
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 Q2077542). 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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