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About Hospital

Hospital, An tOspidéal in Irish, is a village in County Limerick, 25 km south-east of Limerick, with 653 people at the 2016 census. It stands on the R513 and R516. The map gives it 560 buildings and 5 named streets, with 26 places named on them in 25 kinds, and 71 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 29th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Population
653 at the 2016 census
Where
25 km south-east of Limerick, 175 km from Dublin
Position
52.4722° N, 8.4307° W
Roads
R513 and R516
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
560 buildings, 5 streets, 26 named places in 25 kinds
A WALK AROUND LIMERICK PHOTOGRAPHING WHAT CAUGHT MY ATTENTION ST. JOHN'S HOSPITAL 1780 110070 (22961470381)
A WALK AROUND LIMERICK PHOTOGRAPHING WHAT CAUGHT MY ATTENTION ST. JOHN'S HOSPITAL 1780 110070 (22961470381)·William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
EX TWM Daimlers with OS coaches Hospital County Limerick 2000
EX TWM Daimlers with OS coaches Hospital County Limerick 2000·D464-Darren Hall, CC BY 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 71 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R513 and R516 running through Hospital.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 5 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Scoil Íosagáin Ospidéal and John the Baptist Community School.

Questions people ask

Where is Hospital?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 25 km south-east of Limerick and 175 km from Dublin, on the R513 and R516.
How big is Hospital?
653 people at the 2016 census. On the map it is 560 buildings and 5 named streets.
What is there to see in Hospital?
71 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Hospital Church, Kenmare Castle and St. Bridget's Well.
How do you get to Hospital?
1 bus and train line calls at 5 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.
560
buildings on the model
5
named streets
26
named places
25
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 Q1630424). 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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