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About Glin

Glin, An Gleann in Irish, is a village in County Limerick, 45 km west of Limerick. The map gives it 702 buildings and 0 named streets, with 21 places named on them in 27 kinds, and 49 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 20th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Where
45 km west of Limerick, 220 km from Dublin
Position
52.5717° N, 9.2857° W
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
702 buildings, 0 streets, 21 named places in 27 kinds
The view westwards from the jetty. Glyn
The view westwards from the jetty. Glyn·Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A view across the Shannon
A view across the Shannon·Neville Goodman, 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 49 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

2 lines call 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 Glin?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 45 km west of Limerick and 220 km from Dublin.
How big is Glin?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 702 buildings, 0 named streets and 21 named places, which by building count makes it the 20th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.
What is there to see in Glin?
49 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Glin playground, Old Glin Castle and Kilfergus Church.
How do you get to Glin?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 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.
702
buildings on the model
0
named streets
21
named places
27
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 Q1531454). 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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