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About Kilbehenny

Kilbehenny, Coill Bheithne in Irish, is a village in County Limerick, 48 km north-east of Cork. It stands on the M8, N73 and R639. The map gives it 41 buildings and 5 named streets, with 11 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 82 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 63th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Where
48 km north-east of Cork, 176 km from Dublin
Position
52.2944° N, 8.2051° W
Roads
M8, N73 and R639
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
41 buildings, 5 streets, 11 named places in 23 kinds
Castles of Munster: Kilbeheny, Limerick
Castles of Munster: Kilbeheny, Limerick·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Parking area on the M8 Cashel to Mitchelstown motorway
Parking area on the M8 Cashel to Mitchelstown motorway·Steven Brown, 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 82 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M8, N73 and R639 running through Kilbehenny.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Kilbeheny National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Kilbehenny?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 48 km north-east of Cork and 176 km from Dublin, on the M8, N73 and R639.
How big is Kilbehenny?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 41 buildings, 5 named streets and 11 named places, which by building count makes it the 63th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.
What is there to see in Kilbehenny?
82 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Kilbehenny Church, Condon's Corner and Kiltankin Church ruin.
How do you get to Kilbehenny?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the M8 and N73.
Has County Limerick grown or shrunk?
The census counted 330,029 people in the county in 1841 and 209,536 in 2022.
41
buildings on the model
5
named streets
11
named places
23
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 Q4220460). 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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