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About Scarriff

Scarriff, An Scairbh in Irish, is a village in County Clare, 29 km north of Limerick. It stands on the R352 and L4018. The map gives it 323 buildings and 2 named streets, with 39 places named on them in 33 kinds, and 84 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 27th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Population
854, as the map records it
Where
29 km north of Limerick, 159 km from Dublin
Position
52.9110° N, 8.5316° W, 45 m above sea level
Roads
R352 and L4018
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
323 buildings, 2 streets, 39 named places in 33 kinds
Road outside Sacred Heart Church, Scarriff/An Scairbh
Road outside Sacred Heart Church, Scarriff/An Scairbh·P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Sacred Heart Church (2), Scarriff/An Scairbh
Sacred Heart Church (2), Scarriff/An Scairbh·P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 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 84 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R352 and L4018 running through Scarriff.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 7 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Scarriff?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 29 km north of Limerick and 159 km from Dublin, on the R352 and L4018.
How big is Scarriff?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 323 buildings, 2 named streets and 39 named places, which by building count makes it the 27th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.
What is there to see in Scarriff?
84 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Community Garden, Tuamgraney Garden of Remembrance and O'Grady's Castle.
How do you get to Scarriff?
3 bus and train lines call at 7 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.
323
buildings on the model
2
named streets
39
named places
33
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 Q2668587). 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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