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About Newcastle West

Newcastle West, An Caisleán Nua in Irish, is a town in County Limerick, 37 km south-west of Limerick. It stands on the N21, R520 and R521. The map gives it 5,260 buildings and 71 named streets, with 209 places named on them in 102 kinds, and 66 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the second largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Population
7,209, as the map records it
Where
37 km south-west of Limerick, 212 km from Dublin
Position
52.4489° N, 9.0529° W, 55 m above sea level
Roads
N21, R520, R521, R522, L1302, L1315, L1316 and L1340
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
Twinned with
Chartres-de-Bretagne, France
On the model
5,260 buildings, 71 streets, 209 named places in 102 kinds
Desmond Hall - Great Hall Medieval Castle Complex Castle Demesne
Desmond Hall - Great Hall Medieval Castle Complex Castle Demesne·Eugene gogs, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Munster, Desmond Hall (Castle Banqueting Hall), Newcastle West, Limerick geograph.org.uk 1392672
Castles of Munster, Desmond Hall (Castle Banqueting Hall), Newcastle West, Limerick geograph.org.uk 1392672·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 66 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N21, R520, R521, R522, L1302, L1315, L1316 and L1340 running through Newcastle West. 6 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

8 lines call at 13 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

6 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Newcastle West?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 37 km south-west of Limerick and 212 km from Dublin, on the N21, R520 and R521.
How big is Newcastle West?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 5,260 buildings, 71 named streets and 209 named places, which by building count makes it the 2th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.
What is there to see in Newcastle West?
66 things the map records in and around it, the closest being War of Independence Memorial, Desmond Castle and Ella the Buttermaker.
How do you get to Newcastle West?
8 bus and train lines call at 13 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Dublin Coach and Flight Link Limited.
Has County Limerick grown or shrunk?
The census counted 330,029 people in the county in 1841 and 209,536 in 2022.
5,260
buildings on the model
71
named streets
209
named places
102
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 Q987754). 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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