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About Dunquin

Dunquin, Dún Chaoin in Irish, is a village in County Kerry, 137 km south-west of Limerick. The map gives it 345 buildings and 0 named streets, with 13 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 109 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 55th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.

Where
137 km south-west of Limerick, 313 km from Dublin
Position
52.1337° N, 10.4540° W
Governed
Kerry County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
345 buildings, 0 streets, 13 named places in 19 kinds
The Blasket Centre, Dingle Peninsula
The Blasket Centre, Dingle Peninsula·Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Statue of Tomas O'Criomhthain at the Blasket Centre
Statue of Tomas O'Criomhthain at the Blasket Centre·Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0 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 109 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

2 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Dunquin?
In County Kerry, in the province of Munster, 137 km south-west of Limerick and 313 km from Dublin.
How big is Dunquin?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 345 buildings, 0 named streets and 13 named places, which by building count makes it the 55th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.
What is there to see in Dunquin?
109 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Dunquin Church, Ionad an Bhlascaoid Mhóir and Tobar na gCiaróg.
How do you get to Dunquin?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Kerry.
Has County Kerry grown or shrunk?
The census counted 293,880 people in the county in 1841 and 156,458 in 2022.
345
buildings on the model
0
named streets
13
named places
19
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 Q1266246). 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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