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About Effin

Effin, Eifinn in Irish, is a village in County Limerick, 33 km south of Limerick. The map gives it 32 buildings and 0 named streets, with 8 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 75 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 64th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Where
33 km south of Limerick, 192 km from Dublin
Position
52.3625° N, 8.6110° W
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
32 buildings, 0 streets, 8 named places in 19 kinds

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 75 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

1 line calls at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Effin National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Effin?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 33 km south of Limerick and 192 km from Dublin.
How big is Effin?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 32 buildings, 0 named streets and 8 named places, which by building count makes it the 64th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.
What is there to see in Effin?
75 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Effin Church, Lady's Well and Tober.
How do you get to Effin?
1 bus and train line calls at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Joseph Foley.
Has County Limerick grown or shrunk?
The census counted 330,029 people in the county in 1841 and 209,536 in 2022.
32
buildings on the model
0
named streets
8
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. 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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