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About Knocklong

Knocklong is a village in County Limerick, 29 km south-east of Limerick. The map gives it 297 buildings and 0 named streets, with 10 places named on them in 17 kinds, and 61 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 48th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Where
29 km south-east of Limerick, 176 km from Dublin
Position
52.4372° N, 8.4107° W
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
297 buildings, 0 streets, 10 named places in 17 kinds
Castles of Munster, Knocklong, Limerick geograph.org.uk 1541333
Castles of Munster, Knocklong, Limerick geograph.org.uk 1541333·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Munster, Ballynahinch, Limerick geograph.org.uk 1541441
Castles of Munster, Ballynahinch, Limerick geograph.org.uk 1541441·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 61 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Knocklong; the roads it does record are local.

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 Knocklong?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 29 km south-east of Limerick and 176 km from Dublin.
How big is Knocklong?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 297 buildings, 0 named streets and 10 named places, which by building count makes it the 48th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.
What is there to see in Knocklong?
61 things the map records in and around it, the closest being O'Hurley's Castle (ruins), St Patrick's Well and St Paul's Well.
How do you get to Knocklong?
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.
297
buildings on the model
0
named streets
10
named places
17
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 Q4327130). 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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