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About Cappamore

Cappamore, An Cheapach Mhór in Irish, is a village in County Limerick, 21 km east of Limerick, with 669 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the R505. The map gives it 463 buildings and 1 named street, with 7 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 46 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 37th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Population
669 at the 2006 census
Where
21 km east of Limerick, 161 km from Dublin
Position
52.6144° N, 8.3356° W
Roads
R505
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
463 buildings, 1 street, 7 named places in 19 kinds
Detached house on outskirts of Cappamore
Detached house on outskirts of Cappamore·Neil Theasby, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
"The Bridge Inn" at Cappamore
"The Bridge Inn" at Cappamore·Neil Theasby, 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 46 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R505 running through Cappamore.

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 Cappamore?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 21 km east of Limerick and 161 km from Dublin, on the R505.
How big is Cappamore?
669 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 463 buildings and 1 named street.
What is there to see in Cappamore?
46 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Toberbreedia, Kenny's Well and Kilduff Castle.
How do you get to Cappamore?
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.
463
buildings on the model
1
named streets
7
named places
19
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 Q2086311). 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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