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Tipperary
County Tipperary · Munster

About Birdhill

Birdhill, Cnocán an Éin Fhinn in Irish, is a village in County Tipperary, 18 km north-east of Limerick. It stands on the R466 and R494. The map gives it 310 buildings and 6 named streets, with 9 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 65 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 79th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Where
18 km north-east of Limerick, 159 km from Dublin
Position
52.7673° N, 8.4378° W
Roads
R466 and R494
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
310 buildings, 6 streets, 9 named places in 20 kinds
Birdhill, County Tipperary
Birdhill, County Tipperary·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Birdhill railway station, County Tipperary (geograph 6348178)
Birdhill railway station, County Tipperary (geograph 6348178)·Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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 65 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R466 and R494 running through Birdhill.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 4 lines call at 3 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Birdhill?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 18 km north-east of Limerick and 159 km from Dublin, on the R466 and R494.
How big is Birdhill?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 310 buildings, 6 named streets and 9 named places, which by building count makes it the 79th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Birdhill?
65 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Pollagh Trail, The Pollagh Trail and Cast Iron Bridge.
How do you get to Birdhill?
4 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Tipperary grown or shrunk?
The census counted 435,553 people in the county in 1841 and 167,895 in 2022.
310
buildings on the model
6
named streets
9
named places
20
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 Q4101600). 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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