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Tipperary
County Tipperary · Munster

About Cashel

Cashel, Caiseal in Irish, is a town in County Tipperary, 46 km west of Kilkenny. It stands on the M8, N74 and R505. The map gives it 4,066 buildings and 81 named streets, with 160 places named on them in 75 kinds, and 119 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 7th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Population
4,805, as the map records it
Where
46 km west of Kilkenny, 143 km from Dublin
Position
52.5167° N, 7.8879° W, 125 m above sea level
Roads
M8, N74, R505, R639, R660, R688, R691 and R692
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
4,066 buildings, 81 streets, 160 named places in 75 kinds
Rock of Cashel, with Hore Abbey in foreground. Photo by Peter Potter, sunset of October 31, 1987.
Rock of Cashel, with Hore Abbey in foreground. Photo by Peter Potter, sunset of October 31, 1987.·pjp361, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Mullins, Cashel Co.Tipperary (18730458335)
Mullins, Cashel Co.Tipperary (18730458335)·Robert French, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons

Cashel in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1134 to 1784. That is not a history of Cashel, 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.

11341784Cormac's ChapelSaint John's Cathedral
The twelfth century
  • 1134Cormac's ChapelAttractions · 390 m from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The thirteenth century
  • 1272Hore AbbeyAbbeys · 720 m from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The eighteenth 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 119 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M8, N74, R505, R639, R660, R688, R691 and R692 running through Cashel. 6 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

5 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Cashel Community School and Scoil Aonghusa.

Questions people ask

Where is Cashel?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 46 km west of Kilkenny and 143 km from Dublin, on the M8, N74 and R505.
How big is Cashel?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 4,066 buildings, 81 named streets and 160 named places, which by building count makes it the 7th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Cashel?
119 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Cashel Heritage Centre & Tourist Information Office, Cashel Folk Musuem and Saint Dominic's Friary.
How do you get to Cashel?
5 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bernard Kavanagh & Sons, Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Laois Offaly.
Has County Tipperary grown or shrunk?
The census counted 435,553 people in the county in 1841 and 167,895 in 2022.
4,066
buildings on the model
81
named streets
160
named places
75
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 Q1002183). 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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