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About Croom

Croom, Cromadh in Irish, is a town in County Limerick, 17 km south of Limerick. It stands on the N20, R516 and L-8070. The map gives it 1,764 buildings and 18 named streets, with 40 places named on them in 30 kinds, and 69 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 7th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Population
1,240, as the map records it
Where
17 km south of Limerick, 189 km from Dublin
Position
52.5192° N, 8.7172° W, 25 m above sea level
Roads
N20, R516, L-8070, L1419 and L1478
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
1,764 buildings, 18 streets, 40 named places in 30 kinds
Dysert Aenghusa
Dysert Aenghusa·SteveODowd, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The remains of Dysert Aenghusa Monastery and Round Tower near Croom in County Limerick, Ireland
The remains of Dysert Aenghusa Monastery and Round Tower near Croom in County Limerick, Ireland·JohnArmagh, public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Croom in order

5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1148 to 1885. That is not a history of Croom, 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.

11481885Monasteranenagh AbbeyDe Valera's Cottage
The twelfth century
The fourteenth century
The fifteenth century
  • the fifteenth centuryFranciscan AbbeyRingforts and sites · 6.8 km from the centre
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 69 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N20, R516, L-8070, L1419 and L1478 running through Croom.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 5 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: College of FET - Croom Campus, Coláiste Chiaráin and Croom National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Croom?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 17 km south of Limerick and 189 km from Dublin, on the N20, R516 and L-8070.
How big is Croom?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,764 buildings, 18 named streets and 40 named places, which by building count makes it the 7th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.
What is there to see in Croom?
69 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Biodiversity in the Maigue Catchment, Croom Castle and Our Lady's Well, Croom.
How do you get to Croom?
2 bus and train lines call at 5 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and 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.
1,764
buildings on the model
18
named streets
40
named places
30
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 Q2670286). 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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