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About O’Briensbridge

O’Briensbridge, Droichead Uí Bhriain in Irish, is a village in County Clare, 13 km north-east of Limerick. It stands on the R463, R466 and L3046. The map gives it 294 buildings and 8 named streets, with 20 places named on them in 25 kinds, and 78 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 29th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Where
13 km north-east of Limerick, 164 km from Dublin
Position
52.7533° N, 8.5014° W
Roads
R463, R466, L3046 and L3070
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
294 buildings, 8 streets, 20 named places in 25 kinds
Bonner's Pub, O'briensbridge
Bonner's Pub, O'briensbridge·HunNomad, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Bridge above the Shannon River, Bonner's Pub O'briensbridge
Bridge above the Shannon River, Bonner's Pub O'briensbridge·HunNomad, 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 78 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R463, R466, L3046 and L3070 running through O’Briensbridge.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 6 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 O’Briensbridge?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 13 km north-east of Limerick and 164 km from Dublin, on the R463, R466 and L3046.
How big is O’Briensbridge?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 294 buildings, 8 named streets and 20 named places, which by building count makes it the 29th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.
What is there to see in O’Briensbridge?
78 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Stop and Stay, O'Briensbridge Looped Walks and Old Barge Way.
How do you get to O’Briensbridge?
2 bus and train lines call at 6 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.
294
buildings on the model
8
named streets
20
named places
25
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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