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About Kilmurry

Kilmurry, Cill Mhuire in Irish, is a village in County Clare, 16 km north-west of Limerick. The map gives it 4 buildings and 4 named streets, with 15 places named on them in 16 kinds, and 147 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 52th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Where
16 km north-west of Limerick, 180 km from Dublin
Position
52.7761° N, 8.7828° W
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
4 buildings, 4 streets, 15 named places in 16 kinds
Castles of Munster, Mountcashel, Clare geograph.org.uk 1542563
Castles of Munster, Mountcashel, Clare geograph.org.uk 1542563·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Kilmurry in order

5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the fifteenth century to 1965. That is not a history of Kilmurry, 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 century1965Quin AbbeyThe Ringfort
The fifteenth century
  • the fifteenth centuryQuin AbbeyHistoric churches · 7.2 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • 1425Bunratty CastleCastles · 9.1 km from the centre
  • the 1490sBallyhannon CastleCastles · 8.9 km from the centre
The sixteenth 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 147 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Kilmurry; 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: Scoil Cill Mhuire.

Questions people ask

Where is Kilmurry?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 16 km north-west of Limerick and 180 km from Dublin.
How big is Kilmurry?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 4 buildings, 4 named streets and 15 named places, which by building count makes it the 52th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.
What is there to see in Kilmurry?
147 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Skeheen Lough, Cloonmunnia Lough and Knockacunag Lough.
How do you get to Kilmurry?
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.
4
buildings on the model
4
named streets
15
named places
16
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. 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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