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County Tipperary · Munster

About Burncourt

Burncourt is a village in County Tipperary, 53 km north-east of Cork. It stands on the M8 and R639. The map gives it 394 buildings and 4 named streets, with 9 places named on them in 22 kinds, and 99 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 63th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Where
53 km north-east of Cork, 168 km from Dublin
Position
52.3117° N, 8.0798° W
Roads
M8 and R639
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
394 buildings, 4 streets, 9 named places in 22 kinds
Castles of Munster: Burncourt, Tipperary (2) Burncourt lit by the low setting sun.
Castles of Munster: Burncourt, Tipperary (2) Burncourt lit by the low setting sun.·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Munster: Burncourt, Tipperary - revisited (1)
Castles of Munster: Burncourt, Tipperary - revisited (1)·Mike Searle, 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 99 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M8 and R639 running through Burncourt.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Burncourt?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 53 km north-east of Cork and 168 km from Dublin, on the M8 and R639.
How big is Burncourt?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 394 buildings, 4 named streets and 9 named places, which by building count makes it the 63th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Burncourt?
99 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Burncourt Castle, Mitchelstown Cave and Gorteenacousha Wood.
How do you get to Burncourt?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the M8 and R639.
Has County Tipperary grown or shrunk?
The census counted 435,553 people in the county in 1841 and 167,895 in 2022.
394
buildings on the model
4
named streets
9
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 Q4999622). 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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