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About Kilfinnane

Kilfinnane, Cill Fhíonáin in Irish, is a village in County Limerick, 35 km south of Limerick. It stands on the R517, L1511 and L1516. The map gives it 332 buildings and 14 named streets, with 22 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 75 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 46th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Where
35 km south of Limerick, 185 km from Dublin
Position
52.3592° N, 8.4724° W, 151 m above sea level
Roads
R517, L1511, L1516 and L1572
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
332 buildings, 14 streets, 22 named places in 21 kinds
Road from Boshnetstown to L1511
Road from Boshnetstown to L1511·Peter Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Main Street (R517) in Kilfinane
Main Street (R517) in Kilfinane·Peter Wood, 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 75 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R517, L1511, L1516 and L1572 running through Kilfinnane.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Scoil Pól Kilfinane, Scoil Fhionáin Kilfinane and Kilfinane Outdoor Education & Training Centre.

Questions people ask

Where is Kilfinnane?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 35 km south of Limerick and 185 km from Dublin, on the R517, L1511 and L1516.
How big is Kilfinnane?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 332 buildings, 14 named streets and 22 named places, which by building count makes it the 46th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.
What is there to see in Kilfinnane?
75 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ballyhoura tourist information, Kilfinane Motte and Ballyroe Hill.
How do you get to Kilfinnane?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop 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.
332
buildings on the model
14
named streets
22
named places
21
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 Q1976882). 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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