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About Athea

Athea, Áth an tSléibhe in Irish, is a village in County Limerick, 50 km south-west of Limerick, with 377 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the R523. The map gives it 738 buildings and 1 named street, with 9 places named on them in 15 kinds, and 49 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 17th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Population
377 at the 2006 census
Where
50 km south-west of Limerick, 226 km from Dublin
Position
52.4617° N, 9.2891° W
Roads
R523
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
738 buildings, 1 street, 9 named places in 15 kinds
Athea Gaelic Athletics Association Clubhouse, Templeathea, Athea, Co. Limerick
Athea Gaelic Athletics Association Clubhouse, Templeathea, Athea, Co. Limerick·P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Galey River, Athea, Co. Limerick
Galey River, Athea, Co. Limerick·P L Chadwick, 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 49 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R523 running through Athea.

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

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Athea?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 50 km south-west of Limerick and 226 km from Dublin, on the R523.
How big is Athea?
377 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 738 buildings and 1 named street.
What is there to see in Athea?
49 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Goold Monument, Temple Athea and Tobermurry.
How do you get to Athea?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Limerick Clare.
Has County Limerick grown or shrunk?
The census counted 330,029 people in the county in 1841 and 209,536 in 2022.
738
buildings on the model
1
named streets
9
named places
15
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 Q2672375). 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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