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County Tipperary · Munster

About Borrisokane

Borrisokane, Buiríos Uí Chéin in Irish, is a town in County Tipperary, 50 km north-east of Limerick. It stands on the N52 and R490. The map gives it 1,814 buildings and 14 named streets, with 43 places named on them in 41 kinds, and 81 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 11th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Where
50 km north-east of Limerick, 131 km from Dublin
Position
52.9951° N, 8.1275° W
Roads
N52 and R490
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
1,814 buildings, 14 streets, 43 named places in 41 kinds
Castles of Munster: Tombrickane, Tipperary This tower beside the Borrisokane to Ballinderry road belonged to William and Rory Kennedy in the 1650s.
Castles of Munster: Tombrickane, Tipperary This tower beside the Borrisokane to Ballinderry road belonged to William and Rory Kennedy in the 1650s.·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Munster: Tombrickane, Tipperary (2)
Castles of Munster: Tombrickane, Tipperary (2)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Borrisokane in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the twelfth century to 1617. That is not a history of Borrisokane, 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 twelfth century1617Lorrha Priory of St. RuadhanPortumna Castle
The twelfth century
The thirteenth century
The seventeenth century
  • 1617Portumna CastleCastles · 12 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland

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 81 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N52 and R490 running through Borrisokane.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Scoil Mhuire, Borrisokane and Borrisokane Community College.

Questions people ask

Where is Borrisokane?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 50 km north-east of Limerick and 131 km from Dublin, on the N52 and R490.
How big is Borrisokane?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,814 buildings, 14 named streets and 43 named places, which by building count makes it the 11th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Borrisokane?
81 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Rock Well, Borris Wood and Ballyfinboy Castle.
How do you get to Borrisokane?
3 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and Westlink Coaches.
Has County Tipperary grown or shrunk?
The census counted 435,553 people in the county in 1841 and 167,895 in 2022.
1,814
buildings on the model
14
named streets
43
named places
41
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. 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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