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County Clare · Munster

About Quin

Quin, Cuinche in Irish, is a village in County Clare, 24 km north-west of Limerick. It stands on the R469. The map gives it 533 buildings and 12 named streets, with 23 places named on them in 32 kinds, and 201 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 17th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Where
24 km north-west of Limerick, 184 km from Dublin
Position
52.8190° N, 8.8670° W, 17 m above sea level
Roads
R469
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
533 buildings, 12 streets, 23 named places in 32 kinds
Quin Abbey
Quin Abbey·KHoffmanDC from Washington, DC, 20001, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Quin Abbey
Quin Abbey·KHoffmanDC from Washington, DC, 20001, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Quin in order

9 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the seventh century to 2000. That is not a history of Quin, 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 seventh century2000Inchicronan AbbeyClare Museum
The seventh century
  • the seventh centuryInchicronan AbbeyHistoric churches · 11 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The twelfth century
  • the twelfth centuryClare AbbeyHistoric churches · 6.9 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • the twelfth centuryKillone AbbeyAbbeys · 9.3 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fifteenth century
  • the fifteenth centuryQuin AbbeyHistoric churches · 280 m from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • the 1490sBallyhannon CastleCastles · 3.4 km from the centre
The sixteenth century
The nineteenth 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 201 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R469 running through Quin. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 6 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Quin National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Quin?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 24 km north-west of Limerick and 184 km from Dublin, on the R469.
How big is Quin?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 533 buildings, 12 named streets and 23 named places, which by building count makes it the 17th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.
What is there to see in Quin?
201 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Quinn Village, The Mid-Clare Way - Walking Route and Mainistir.
How do you get to Quin?
3 bus and train lines call at 6 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.
533
buildings on the model
12
named streets
23
named places
32
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 Q1022254). 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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