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About Abbeydorney

Abbeydorney, Mainistir Ó dTorna in Irish, is a village in County Kerry, 80 km south-west of Limerick. It stands on the R557. The map gives it 709 buildings and 4 named streets, with 15 places named on them in 30 kinds, and 142 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 24th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.

Population
528, as the map records it
Where
80 km south-west of Limerick, 256 km from Dublin
Position
52.3466° N, 9.6874° W, 72 m above sea level
Roads
R557
Governed
Kerry County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
709 buildings, 4 streets, 15 named places in 30 kinds
Abbeydorney Monastery
Abbeydorney Monastery·Paulw62, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Abbeydorney Monastery
Abbeydorney Monastery·Paulw62, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Kerry 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.

293,880112,772156,45818412022

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 142 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R557 running through Abbeydorney.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Abbeydorney?
In County Kerry, in the province of Munster, 80 km south-west of Limerick and 256 km from Dublin, on the R557.
How big is Abbeydorney?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 709 buildings, 4 named streets and 15 named places, which by building count makes it the 24th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.
What is there to see in Abbeydorney?
142 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Abbeydorney Community Playground, Kilbrickaun Fort and Lissadrough.
How do you get to Abbeydorney?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Kerry grown or shrunk?
The census counted 293,880 people in the county in 1841 and 156,458 in 2022.
709
buildings on the model
4
named streets
15
named places
30
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 Q2078126). 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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