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About Lisdoonvarna

Lisdoonvarna, Lios Dúin Bhearna in Irish, is a town in County Clare, 32 km south-west of Galway, with 829 people at the 2016 census. It stands on the N67, R476 and R477. The map gives it 1,861 buildings and 7 named streets, with 62 places named on them in 40 kinds, and 127 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 6th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Population
829 at the 2016 census
Where
32 km south-west of Galway, 205 km from Dublin
Position
53.0294° N, 9.2895° W, 94 m above sea level
Roads
N67, R476 and R477
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
1,861 buildings, 7 streets, 62 named places in 40 kinds
Church and main street of Lisdoonvarna, Clare county, Ireland.
Church and main street of Lisdoonvarna, Clare county, Ireland.·Cqui, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Twin Wells on the banks of the River Aille at Lisdoonvarna
The Twin Wells on the banks of the River Aille at Lisdoonvarna·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Lisdoonvarna in order

6 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the tenth century to the sixteenth century. That is not a history of Lisdoonvarna, 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 tenth centurythe sixteenth centuryCaherconnell Stone FortDoonagore Castle
The tenth century
The fifteenth century
The sixteenth 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 127 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N67, R476 and R477 running through Lisdoonvarna. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Saint Enda's National School and Mary Immaculate Secondary School.

Questions people ask

Where is Lisdoonvarna?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 32 km south-west of Galway and 205 km from Dublin, on the N67, R476 and R477.
How big is Lisdoonvarna?
829 people at the 2016 census. On the map it is 1,861 buildings and 7 named streets.
What is there to see in Lisdoonvarna?
127 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Caherbarnagh, Ballyteigue Nature Reserve and Kilmoon Church.
How do you get to Lisdoonvarna?
4 bus and train lines call at 3 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.
1,861
buildings on the model
7
named streets
62
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 Q1005113). 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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