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About Oola

Oola, Úlla in Irish, is a village in County Limerick, 29 km south-east of Limerick. The map gives it 151 buildings and 0 named streets, with 21 places named on them in 28 kinds, and 62 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 56th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Where
29 km south-east of Limerick, 162 km from Dublin
Position
52.5297° N, 8.2596° W
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
151 buildings, 0 streets, 21 named places in 28 kinds
Castles of Munster, Oola, Limerick geograph.org.uk 1542112
Castles of Munster, Oola, Limerick geograph.org.uk 1542112·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Munster: Oola, Limerick (2)
Castles of Munster: Oola, Limerick (2)·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 62 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

2 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Oola?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 29 km south-east of Limerick and 162 km from Dublin.
How big is Oola?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 151 buildings, 0 named streets and 21 named places, which by building count makes it the 56th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.
What is there to see in Oola?
62 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Oola Hill, Oola Castle Ruins and Lady's Well.
How do you get to Oola?
2 bus and train lines call 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.
151
buildings on the model
0
named streets
21
named places
28
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 Q2474217). 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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