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About Foynes

Foynes, Faing in Irish, is a town in County Limerick, 33 km west of Limerick. The map gives it 989 buildings and 2 named streets, with 29 places named on them in 30 kinds, and 68 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 12th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Where
33 km west of Limerick, 208 km from Dublin
Position
52.6111° N, 9.1110° W, 3 m above sea level
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
989 buildings, 2 streets, 29 named places in 30 kinds
Foynes - Main Street (N69) - Foynes Flying Boat Museum - B314 Frontal View
Foynes - Main Street (N69) - Foynes Flying Boat Museum - B314 Frontal View·Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Foynes - Main Street (N69) - Foynes Flying Boat Museum - B314 Replica Interior
Foynes - Main Street (N69) - Foynes Flying Boat Museum - B314 Replica Interior·Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Foynes in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the twelfth century to 1988. That is not a history of Foynes, 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.

the twelfth century1988Canon Island AbbeyFoynes Flying Boat & Maritime Museum
The twelfth century
  • the twelfth centuryCanon Island AbbeyHistoric churches · 9.1 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The thirteenth century
The twentieth 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 68 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Foynes; the roads it does record are local. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 6 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: St Senan's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Foynes?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 33 km west of Limerick and 208 km from Dublin.
How big is Foynes?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 989 buildings, 2 named streets and 29 named places, which by building count makes it the 12th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.
What is there to see in Foynes?
68 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Foynes Flying Boat & Maritime Museum, Foynes Island Viewpoint and Spring Rice Monument.
How do you get to Foynes?
1 bus and train line calls at 6 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.
989
buildings on the model
2
named streets
29
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 Q671401). 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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