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About Abbeyfeale

Abbeyfeale, Mainistir na Féile in Irish, is a town in County Limerick, 55 km south-west of Limerick. It stands on the R576. The map gives it 3,539 buildings and 7 named streets, with 39 places named on them in 29 kinds, and 42 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the third largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Population
2,206, as the map records it
Where
55 km south-west of Limerick, 231 km from Dublin
Position
52.3848° N, 9.3015° W, 75 m above sea level
Roads
R576
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
3,539 buildings, 7 streets, 39 named places in 29 kinds
The former Abbeyfeale station (geograph 5020039)
The former Abbeyfeale station (geograph 5020039)·Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Market day in Abbeyfeale
Market day in Abbeyfeale·Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Limerick 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.

330,029133,339209,53618412022

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 42 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R576 running through Abbeyfeale. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

5 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Coláiste Íde agus Iosef, Limerick College of FET - Abbeyfeale Campus and Schoil Mhuire na mBuachaillí.

Questions people ask

Where is Abbeyfeale?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 55 km south-west of Limerick and 231 km from Dublin, on the R576.
How big is Abbeyfeale?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 3,539 buildings, 7 named streets and 39 named places, which by building count makes it the 3th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.
What is there to see in Abbeyfeale?
42 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Purt Castle, Poultownsy and Rathoran.
How do you get to Abbeyfeale?
5 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Dublin Coach and Flight Link Limited.
Has County Limerick grown or shrunk?
The census counted 330,029 people in the county in 1841 and 209,536 in 2022.
3,539
buildings on the model
7
named streets
39
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 Q306440). 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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