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About Bruff

Bruff, An Brú in Irish, is a village in County Limerick, 21 km south of Limerick. The map gives it 507 buildings and 0 named streets, with 19 places named on them in 25 kinds, and 79 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 32th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Where
21 km south of Limerick, 182 km from Dublin
Position
52.4755° N, 8.5475° W
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
507 buildings, 0 streets, 19 named places in 25 kinds
Castles of Munster, Ballygrennan, Limerick geograph.org.uk 1541489
Castles of Munster, Ballygrennan, Limerick geograph.org.uk 1541489·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Children chatting to troops passing through to an attack on Irregulars Stronghold (23910879970)
Children chatting to troops passing through to an attack on Irregulars Stronghold (23910879970)·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions 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 79 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Bruff; the roads it does record are local.

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 Bruff?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 21 km south of Limerick and 182 km from Dublin.
How big is Bruff?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 507 buildings, 0 named streets and 19 named places, which by building count makes it the 32th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.
What is there to see in Bruff?
79 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Seán Wall Memorial, Thomas Fitzgerald center and Ballygrennan Castle.
How do you get to Bruff?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Limerick grown or shrunk?
The census counted 330,029 people in the county in 1841 and 209,536 in 2022.
507
buildings on the model
0
named streets
19
named places
25
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 Q2567094). 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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