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County Tipperary · Munster

About Cloughjordan

Cloughjordan, Cloch Shiurdáin in Irish, is a town in County Tipperary, 51 km north-east of Limerick. It stands on the R490, R491 and L1058. The map gives it 1,643 buildings and 32 named streets, with 51 places named on them in 44 kinds, and 59 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 12th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Where
51 km north-east of Limerick, 127 km from Dublin
Position
52.9429° N, 8.0392° W
Roads
R490, R491, L1058 and L1060
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
1,643 buildings, 32 streets, 51 named places in 44 kinds
Little People of the Millennium
Little People of the Millennium·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Overbridge at Cloughjordan
Overbridge at Cloughjordan·Gareth James, 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 59 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R490, R491, L1058 and L1060 running through Cloughjordan. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 2 lines call at 3 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: St Michaels Cloughjordan No 2 National School and Cloughjordan Number 1 National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Cloughjordan?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 51 km north-east of Limerick and 127 km from Dublin, on the R490, R491 and L1058.
How big is Cloughjordan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,643 buildings, 32 named streets and 51 named places, which by building count makes it the 12th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Cloughjordan?
59 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Thomas MacDonagh Heritage Centre, MacDonagh House and Thomas MacDonagh Memorial Garden.
How do you get to Cloughjordan?
2 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail and TFI Local Link Tipperary. 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.
1,643
buildings on the model
32
named streets
51
named places
44
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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