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County Clare · Munster

About Inch

Inch, An Inse in Irish, is a village in County Clare, 34 km north-west of Limerick. It stands on the R474. The map gives it 82 buildings and 3 named streets, with 1 place named on them in 20 kinds, and 112 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 46th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Where
34 km north-west of Limerick, 196 km from Dublin
Position
52.8222° N, 9.0585° W, 3 m above sea level
Roads
R474
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
82 buildings, 3 streets, 1 named place in 20 kinds

Inch in order

5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the eighth century to 2000. That is not a history of Inch, 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 eighth century2000Dysert O’DeaClare Museum
The eighth century
  • the eighth centuryDysert O’DeaHistoric churches · 9.7 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The twelfth century
  • the twelfth centuryClare AbbeyHistoric churches · 6.1 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • the twelfth centuryKillone AbbeyAbbeys · 4.1 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fifteenth 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 112 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R474 running through Inch.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Inch?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 34 km north-west of Limerick and 196 km from Dublin, on the R474.
How big is Inch?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 82 buildings, 3 named streets and 1 named place, which by building count makes it the 46th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.
What is there to see in Inch?
112 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Gortaganniv Lough, Lisborneen Lough and Ballymacooda Lough.
How do you get to Inch?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the R474.
Has County Clare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 286,394 people in the county in 1841 and 127,938 in 2022.
82
buildings on the model
3
named streets
1
named places
20
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 Q4202321). 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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