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About Rathkeale

Rathkeale, Ráth Caola in Irish, is a town in County Limerick, 26 km south-west of Limerick, with 1,441 people at the 2016 census. It stands on the N21. The map gives it 2,893 buildings and 4 named streets, with 30 places named on them in 28 kinds, and 109 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 4th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Population
1,441 at the 2016 census
Where
26 km south-west of Limerick, 202 km from Dublin
Position
52.5236° N, 8.9377° W, 45 m above sea level
Roads
N21
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
2,893 buildings, 4 streets, 30 named places in 28 kinds
Duelling Dye Works? (5260240821)
Duelling Dye Works? (5260240821)·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Munster: Rathnasaer, Limerick
Castles of Munster: Rathnasaer, Limerick·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Rathkeale in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the thirteenth century to 1657. That is not a history of Rathkeale, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

the thirteenth century1657MonasternagalliaghduffCurraghchase House
The thirteenth century
The fourteenth century
The seventeenth century

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 109 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N21 running through Rathkeale.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 3 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Coláiste na Trócaire and St. James' National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Rathkeale?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 26 km south-west of Limerick and 202 km from Dublin, on the N21.
How big is Rathkeale?
1,441 people at the 2016 census. On the map it is 2,893 buildings and 4 named streets.
What is there to see in Rathkeale?
109 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Rathkeale Abbey, Glebe Castle and Castle Matrix.
How do you get to Rathkeale?
3 bus and train lines call at 3 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.
2,893
buildings on the model
4
named streets
30
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 Q1006749). 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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