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Limerick
County Limerick · Munster

About Limerick

Limerick, Luimneach in Irish, is a city in County Limerick, 74 km south of Galway, with 62,702 people at the 2022 census. It stands on the M20, M7 and N18. The map gives it 43,197 buildings and 886 named streets, with 2,378 places named on them in 260 kinds, and 132 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Population
62,702 at the 2022 census
Where
74 km south of Galway, 176 km from Dublin
Position
52.6613° N, 8.6301° W, 10 m above sea level
Area
20.79 km²
Roads
M20, M7, N18, N24, R445, R463, R464 and R509
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
Twinned with
Quimper, France, Cloppenburg, Germany, Spokane, United States, New Brunswick, United States, Kansas City, United States, Santa Clara, United States and Hohenlohe, Germany
On the model
43,197 buildings, 886 streets, 2,378 named places in 260 kinds
Stalls beneath the canopy of Limerick’s Milk Market.
Stalls beneath the canopy of Limerick’s Milk Market.·Thoslee, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
St Mary's Cathedral and its grounds in Limerick.
St Mary's Cathedral and its grounds in Limerick.·Thoslee, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Limerick in order

20 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1565 to 2021. That is not a history of Limerick, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

15652021Crescent College ComprehensiveTechnological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest
The sixteenth century
The seventeenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first century

Population of Limerick at each census

62,70256,77920112022

Census counts recorded on Wikidata for Limerick (item Q133315).

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 132 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M20, M7, N18, N24, R445, R463, R464 and R509 running through Limerick. 95 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 46 lines call at 354 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

43 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Limerick?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 74 km south of Galway and 176 km from Dublin, on the M20, M7 and N18.
How big is Limerick?
62,702 people at the 2022 census. On the map it is 43,197 buildings and 886 named streets.
What is there to see in Limerick?
132 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Saint John Paul II, Citizen Information and Docker's Monument.
How do you get to Limerick?
46 bus and train lines call at 354 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Feda, Bus Éireann and Citylink. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Limerick grown or shrunk?
The census counted 330,029 people in the county in 1841 and 209,536 in 2022.
43,197
buildings on the model
886
named streets
2378
named places
260
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 Q133315). 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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