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About Broadford

Broadford, Béal an Átha in Irish, is a village in County Limerick, 42 km south-west of Limerick. It stands on the R515. The map gives it 629 buildings and 1 named street, with 10 places named on them in 15 kinds, and 42 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 24th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Where
42 km south-west of Limerick, 214 km from Dublin
Position
52.3464° N, 8.9750° W
Roads
R515
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
629 buildings, 1 street, 10 named places in 15 kinds
Springfield Castle, by Broadford, County Limerick
Springfield Castle, by Broadford, County Limerick·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Munster: Springfield, Limerick (2)
Castles of Munster: Springfield, Limerick (2)·Mike Searle, 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 R515 running through Broadford.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Broadford?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 42 km south-west of Limerick and 214 km from Dublin, on the R515.
How big is Broadford?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 629 buildings, 1 named street and 10 named places, which by building count makes it the 24th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.
What is there to see in Broadford?
42 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Killaliathan Church, Lisnafulla and Lisheenalyra.
How do you get to Broadford?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the R515.
Has County Limerick grown or shrunk?
The census counted 330,029 people in the county in 1841 and 209,536 in 2022.
629
buildings on the model
1
named streets
10
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 Q4096798). 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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