Skip to content
Tipperary
County Tipperary · Munster

About Cahir

Cahir, An Chathair in Irish, is a town in County Tipperary, 55 km south-west of Kilkenny, with 3,381 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the M8, N24 and R639. The map gives it 3,209 buildings and 62 named streets, with 120 places named on them in 72 kinds, and 92 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 8th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Population
3,381 at the 2006 census
Where
55 km south-west of Kilkenny, 156 km from Dublin
Position
52.3750° N, 7.9242° W, 50 m above sea level
Roads
M8, N24, R639, R640, R670 and R913
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
Twinned with
Scarborough, United Kingdom
On the model
3,209 buildings, 62 streets, 120 named places in 72 kinds
Group of men, Corpus Christi procession, Cahir, Co. Tipperary (21890973583)
Group of men, Corpus Christi procession, Cahir, Co. Tipperary (21890973583)·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
Castle Street in Cahir
Castle Street in Cahir·Peter Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Cahir in order

6 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1142 to 1885. That is not a history of Cahir, 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.

11421885Cahir CastleCahir GAA Club
The twelfth century
  • 1142Cahir CastleCastles · 190 m from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • 1186Ardfinnan CastleCastles · 7.7 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • 1192Knockgraffon MotteRingforts and sites · 4.2 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The thirteenth century
  • the thirteenth centuryCaher AbbeyAbbeys · 530 m from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The nineteenth 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 92 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M8, N24, R639, R640, R670 and R913 running through Cahir. 4 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 7 lines call at 8 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Coláiste Dún Iascaigh, Cahir Boys Catholic National School and Saint Mary's School.

Questions people ask

Where is Cahir?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 55 km south-west of Kilkenny and 156 km from Dublin, on the M8, N24 and R639.
How big is Cahir?
3,381 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 3,209 buildings and 62 named streets.
What is there to see in Cahir?
92 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Titanic memorial, Great War Memorial and The Butler Trail.
How do you get to Cahir?
7 bus and train lines call at 8 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail and Piltown Coaches. 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.
3,209
buildings on the model
62
named streets
120
named places
72
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 Q516951). 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.

Back to Cahir·Getting to Cahir·County Tipperary