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About Listowel

Listowel, Lios Tuathail in Irish, is a town in County Kerry, 62 km west of Limerick, with 4,820 people at the 2016 census. It stands on the N69, R552 and R555. The map gives it 5,083 buildings and 37 named streets, with 59 places named on them in 36 kinds, and 67 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the second largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.

Population
4,820 at the 2016 census
Where
62 km west of Limerick, 238 km from Dublin
Position
52.4472° N, 9.4847° W, 27 m above sea level
Area
33 km²
Roads
N69, R552, R555 and L1011
Governed
Kerry County Council, in the province of Munster
Twinned with
Shawnee, United States, Downpatrick, United Kingdom, Panissières, France and Los Gatos, United States
On the model
5,083 buildings, 37 streets, 59 named places in 36 kinds
Market Day, Listowel, Co. Kerry (5263734718)
Market Day, Listowel, Co. Kerry (5263734718)·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
Main Street of Listowel
Main Street of Listowel·Lobster1, CC BY-SA 3.0 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 67 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N69, R552, R555 and L1011 running through Listowel. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

6 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Listowel?
In County Kerry, in the province of Munster, 62 km west of Limerick and 238 km from Dublin, on the N69, R552 and R555.
How big is Listowel?
4,820 people at the 2016 census. On the map it is 5,083 buildings and 37 named streets.
What is there to see in Listowel?
67 things the map records in and around it, the closest being John B. Keane, Bryan MacMahon and Kerry Writers' Museum.
How do you get to Listowel?
3 bus and train lines call at 3 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.
5,083
buildings on the model
37
named streets
59
named places
36
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 Q996487). 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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