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About Herbertstown

Herbertstown, Baile Hiobaird in Irish, is a village in County Limerick, 19 km south-east of Limerick. It stands on the R514. The map gives it 187 buildings and 1 named street, with 1 place named on them in 10 kinds, and 75 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 53th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Where
19 km south-east of Limerick, 174 km from Dublin
Position
52.5181° N, 8.4687° W
Roads
R514
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
187 buildings, 1 street, 1 named place in 10 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 records the R514 running through Herbertstown.

By bus or train

1 line calls 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 Herbertstown?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 19 km south-east of Limerick and 174 km from Dublin, on the R514.
How big is Herbertstown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 187 buildings, 1 named street and 1 named place, which by building count makes it the 53th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.
What is there to see in Herbertstown?
75 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ballynamona Church (ruins), Lough Gur O and Carraig Aille.
How do you get to Herbertstown?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 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.
187
buildings on the model
1
named streets
1
named places
10
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 Q4497282). 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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