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County Tipperary · Munster

About Ardfinnan

Ardfinnan, Ard Fhíonáin in Irish, is a village in County Tipperary, 52 km west of Waterford. It stands on the R665. The map gives it 895 buildings and 14 named streets, with 14 places named on them in 22 kinds, and 91 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 17th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Where
52 km west of Waterford, 159 km from Dublin
Position
52.3110° N, 7.8784° W, 55 m above sea level
Roads
R665
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
895 buildings, 14 streets, 14 named places in 22 kinds
Castles of Munster: Ardfinnan, Tipperary (2), near to Ard Fhionain, Neddans House and Ballyneety, Tipperary, Ireland.
Castles of Munster: Ardfinnan, Tipperary (2), near to Ard Fhionain, Neddans House and Ballyneety, Tipperary, Ireland.·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Munster, Ardfinnan, Tipperary geograph.org.uk 1393364
Castles of Munster, Ardfinnan, Tipperary geograph.org.uk 1393364·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Ardfinnan in order

5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1142 to 1910. That is not a history of Ardfinnan, 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.

11421910Cahir CastleArdfinnan GAA Club
The twelfth century
  • 1142Cahir CastleCastles · 7.8 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • 1186Ardfinnan CastleCastles · in the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • 1192Knockgraffon MotteRingforts and sites · 12 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The thirteenth century
  • the thirteenth centuryCaher AbbeyAbbeys · 8.3 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The twentieth century

County Tipperary 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.

435,553122,812167,89518412022

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 91 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R665 running through Ardfinnan.

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

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

Questions people ask

Where is Ardfinnan?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 52 km west of Waterford and 159 km from Dublin, on the R665.
How big is Ardfinnan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 895 buildings, 14 named streets and 14 named places, which by building count makes it the 17th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Ardfinnan?
91 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ardfinnan Castle, Ardfinnan Scout Hall and Tipperary Heritage Way - Ardfinnan.
How do you get to Ardfinnan?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Tipperary grown or shrunk?
The census counted 435,553 people in the county in 1841 and 167,895 in 2022.
895
buildings on the model
14
named streets
14
named places
22
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 Q4068960). 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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