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About Elton

Elton, Eiltiún in Irish, is a village in County Limerick, 29 km south-east of Limerick. It stands on the R515. The map gives it 146 buildings and 2 named streets, with 6 places named on them in 15 kinds, and 80 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 58th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Where
29 km south-east of Limerick, 180 km from Dublin
Position
52.4263° N, 8.4579° W
Roads
R515
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
146 buildings, 2 streets, 6 named places in 15 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 80 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R515 running through Elton.

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 Elton?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 29 km south-east of Limerick and 180 km from Dublin, on the R515.
How big is Elton?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 146 buildings, 2 named streets and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 58th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.
What is there to see in Elton?
80 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Athneasy Fort, Lady's Well and Ahadoon.
How do you get to Elton?
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.
146
buildings on the model
2
named streets
6
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 Q4531350). 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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