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About Ruan

Ruan, An Ruán in Irish, is a village in County Clare, 38 km north-west of Limerick. The map gives it 210 buildings and 0 named streets, with 10 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 218 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 35th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Where
38 km north-west of Limerick, 188 km from Dublin
Position
52.9292° N, 8.9902° W
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
210 buildings, 0 streets, 10 named places in 23 kinds
View of the ruins of Dromore Castle, County Clare, Ireland as seen from Rabbit Island
View of the ruins of Dromore Castle, County Clare, Ireland as seen from Rabbit Island·Drow69, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Munster: Dromore, Clare (2) A view showing the castle's location beside Dromore Lough.
Castles of Munster: Dromore, Clare (2) A view showing the castle's location beside Dromore Lough.·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Ruan in order

7 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the seventh century to 2000. That is not a history of Ruan, 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 · 5.8 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The eighth century
  • the eighth centuryDysert O’DeaHistoric churches · 5.7 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The twelfth century
  • the twelfth centuryClare AbbeyHistoric churches · 11 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 218 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Ruan; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Ruan?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 38 km north-west of Limerick and 188 km from Dublin.
How big is Ruan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 210 buildings, 0 named streets and 10 named places, which by building count makes it the 35th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.
What is there to see in Ruan?
218 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Dromore Lough, Lough Garr and Dromore Lough.
How do you get to Ruan?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Clare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 286,394 people in the county in 1841 and 127,938 in 2022.
210
buildings on the model
0
named streets
10
named places
23
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 Q4398923). 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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