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About Adare

Adare, Áth Dara in Irish, is a village in County Limerick, 15 km south-west of Limerick, with 982 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the N21. The map gives it 1,119 buildings and 11 named streets, with 65 places named on them in 40 kinds, and 89 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 9th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Population
982 at the 2006 census
Where
15 km south-west of Limerick, 191 km from Dublin
Position
52.5637° N, 8.7924° W, 5 m above sea level
Roads
N21
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
1,119 buildings, 11 streets, 65 named places in 40 kinds
Adare - Main Street (N21) & Rathkeale Road (N21) - Pat Collins Bar
Adare - Main Street (N21) & Rathkeale Road (N21) - Pat Collins Bar·Suzanne Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Street of Adare, 2021-06-20
Street of Adare, 2021-06-20·瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Adare in order

5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1148 to 1862. That is not a history of Adare, 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.

11481862Monasteranenagh AbbeyAdare Manor Hotel
The twelfth century
The fourteenth century
The fifteenth century
  • the fifteenth centuryFranciscan AbbeyRingforts and sites · 1.3 km from the centre
The seventeenth century
The nineteenth century

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 89 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N21 running through Adare.

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: St Joseph's National School, St. Nicholas' National School and Our Lady's Abbey National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Adare?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 15 km south-west of Limerick and 191 km from Dublin, on the N21.
How big is Adare?
982 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 1,119 buildings and 11 named streets.
What is there to see in Adare?
89 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Adare Town Park, Washing Pool and Adare Tourist Office.
How do you get to Adare?
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.
1,119
buildings on the model
11
named streets
65
named places
40
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 Q352590). 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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