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About Brosna

Brosna is a village in County Kerry, 58 km south-west of Limerick. The map gives it 550 buildings and 0 named streets, with 7 places named on them in 9 kinds, and 30 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 36th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.

Where
58 km south-west of Limerick, 233 km from Dublin
Position
52.3120° N, 9.2662° W
Governed
Kerry County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
550 buildings, 0 streets, 7 named places in 9 kinds

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.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 30 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Brosna; 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: Scoil Mhuire.

Questions people ask

Where is Brosna?
In County Kerry, in the province of Munster, 58 km south-west of Limerick and 233 km from Dublin.
How big is Brosna?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 550 buildings, 0 named streets and 7 named places, which by building count makes it the 36th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.
What is there to see in Brosna?
30 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Poulatemple, Poulnagun and Caheradawpogh.
How do you get to Brosna?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Kerry grown or shrunk?
The census counted 293,880 people in the county in 1841 and 156,458 in 2022.
550
buildings on the model
0
named streets
7
named places
9
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 Q3778478). 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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