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About Knockainey

Knockainey, Cnoc Áine in Irish, is a village in County Limerick, 24 km south-east of Limerick. It stands on the L1507. The map gives it 166 buildings and 3 named streets, with 8 places named on them in 16 kinds, and 67 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 55th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Where
24 km south-east of Limerick, 177 km from Dublin
Position
52.4733° N, 8.4701° W
Roads
L1507
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
166 buildings, 3 streets, 8 named places in 16 kinds
Knockainy Creamery
Knockainy Creamery·Andrewmc, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Munster: Knockainy, Limerick
Castles of Munster: Knockainy, Limerick·Mike Searle, 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 67 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L1507 running through Knockainey.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Knockainey?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 24 km south-east of Limerick and 177 km from Dublin, on the L1507.
How big is Knockainey?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 166 buildings, 3 named streets and 8 named places, which by building count makes it the 55th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.
What is there to see in Knockainey?
67 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Knockainey Castle, Knockainy and Hospital Church.
How do you get to Knockainey?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the L1507.
Has County Limerick grown or shrunk?
The census counted 330,029 people in the county in 1841 and 209,536 in 2022.
166
buildings on the model
3
named streets
8
named places
16
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. 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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