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About Murroe

Murroe, Maigh Rua in Irish, is a village in County Limerick, 16 km east of Limerick. It stands on the R506. The map gives it 526 buildings and 8 named streets, with 24 places named on them in 27 kinds, and 57 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 31th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Where
16 km east of Limerick, 163 km from Dublin
Position
52.6495° N, 8.3996° W, 80 m above sea level
Roads
R506
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
526 buildings, 8 streets, 24 named places in 27 kinds
View east from the entrance to Abington Rectory
View east from the entrance to Abington Rectory·Neil Theasby, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Glenstal Abbey entrance, September 2024
Glenstal Abbey entrance, September 2024·DaHuzyBru, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 57 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R506 running through Murroe. 2 car parks on the map.

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

2 school or colleges on the map: Glenstal Abbey School and Murroe National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Murroe?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 16 km east of Limerick and 163 km from Dublin, on the R506.
How big is Murroe?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 526 buildings, 8 named streets and 24 named places, which by building count makes it the 31th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.
What is there to see in Murroe?
57 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Sliev Felim Way, Murroe Community Playground and Chapel Lake.
How do you get to Murroe?
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.
526
buildings on the model
8
named streets
24
named places
27
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 Q1953876). 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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