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About Lixnaw

Lixnaw, Leic Snámha in Irish, is a village in County Kerry, 73 km south-west of Limerick. It stands on the L1029. The map gives it 984 buildings and 7 named streets, with 26 places named on them in 29 kinds, and 85 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 17th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.

Where
73 km south-west of Limerick, 249 km from Dublin
Position
52.4040° N, 9.6173° W
Roads
L1029
Governed
Kerry County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
984 buildings, 7 streets, 26 named places in 29 kinds
Steam train at LixnawDuring the "North Kerry" enthusiast railtour, former Great Southern & Western Railway 0.6.0 No. 186 pauses at Lixnaw station.
Steam train at LixnawDuring the "North Kerry" enthusiast railtour, former Great Southern & Western Railway 0.6.0 No. 186 pauses at Lixnaw station.·The Carlisle Kid, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Have you seen that "Whatsit" in Lixnaw Flickr National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Have you seen that "Whatsit" in Lixnaw Flickr National Library of Ireland on The Commons·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions 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 85 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L1029 running through Lixnaw.

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: Scoil Mhuire de Lourdes.

Questions people ask

Where is Lixnaw?
In County Kerry, in the province of Munster, 73 km south-west of Limerick and 249 km from Dublin, on the L1029.
How big is Lixnaw?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 984 buildings, 7 named streets and 26 named places, which by building count makes it the 17th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.
What is there to see in Lixnaw?
85 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lixnaw Playground, Lady Lixnaw's Well and St Michael's Well.
How do you get to Lixnaw?
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.
984
buildings on the model
7
named streets
26
named places
29
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 Q2077498). 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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