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About Montpelier

Montpelier is a village in County Limerick, 13 km north-east of Limerick. It stands on the R466. The map gives it 279 buildings and 4 named streets, with 11 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 75 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 49th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Where
13 km north-east of Limerick, 164 km from Dublin
Position
52.7510° N, 8.4956° W
Roads
R466
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
279 buildings, 4 streets, 11 named places in 18 kinds
Junction of the R463 and R466 roads, near O'Briensbridge
Junction of the R463 and R466 roads, near O'Briensbridge·P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The R463 road to Killaloe, near O'Briensbridge
The R463 road to Killaloe, near O'Briensbridge·P L Chadwick, 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 R466 running through Montpelier.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 5 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 Montpelier?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 13 km north-east of Limerick and 164 km from Dublin, on the R466.
How big is Montpelier?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 279 buildings, 4 named streets and 11 named places, which by building count makes it the 49th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.
What is there to see in Montpelier?
75 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Capstan, parking na O'Briena bridge and Nan Hogan Memorial Garden.
How do you get to Montpelier?
2 bus and train lines call 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.
279
buildings on the model
4
named streets
11
named places
18
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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