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About Sixmilebridge

Sixmilebridge, Droíchead Abhann Ó gCearnaigh in Irish, is a village in County Clare, 13 km north-west of Limerick, with 2,507 people at the 2011 census. It stands on the R462. The map gives it 94 buildings and 8 named streets, with 11 places named on them in 25 kinds, and 139 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 44th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Population
2,507 at the 2011 census
Where
13 km north-west of Limerick, 181 km from Dublin
Position
52.7414° N, 8.7742° W, 8 m above sea level
Area
2.47 km²
Roads
R462
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
94 buildings, 8 streets, 11 named places in 25 kinds
Former anglican church in Sixmilebridge, Clare, Ireland
Former anglican church in Sixmilebridge, Clare, Ireland·Draceane, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A flock of geese in Sixmilebridge, Clare, Ireland
A flock of geese in Sixmilebridge, Clare, Ireland·Draceane, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Sixmilebridge in order

5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the fifteenth century to 1965. That is not a history of Sixmilebridge, 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 fifteenth century1965Quin AbbeyThe Ringfort
The fifteenth century
  • the fifteenth centuryQuin AbbeyHistoric churches · 11 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • 1425Bunratty CastleCastles · 5.6 km from the centre
  • the 1490sBallyhannon CastleCastles · 11 km from the centre
The sixteenth 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 139 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R462 running through Sixmilebridge.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 4 lines call at 9 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: St. Finnachta's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Sixmilebridge?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 13 km north-west of Limerick and 181 km from Dublin, on the R462.
How big is Sixmilebridge?
2,507 people at the 2011 census. On the map it is 94 buildings and 8 named streets.
What is there to see in Sixmilebridge?
139 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Duck Inn, Gortalassa Fort and Town Lough.
How do you get to Sixmilebridge?
4 bus and train lines call at 9 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Clare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 286,394 people in the county in 1841 and 127,938 in 2022.
94
buildings on the model
8
named streets
11
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 (item Q2329009). 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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