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County Tipperary · Munster

About Drom

Drom is a village in County Tipperary, 45 km west of Kilkenny. The map gives it 440 buildings and 0 named streets, with 12 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 72 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 53th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Where
45 km west of Kilkenny, 127 km from Dublin
Position
52.7675° N, 7.8966° W
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
440 buildings, 0 streets, 12 named places in 21 kinds
Castles of Munster, Knockagh, Tipperary geograph.org.uk 1542678
Castles of Munster, Knockagh, Tipperary geograph.org.uk 1542678·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Derelict cottage at Kilvilcorris
Derelict cottage at Kilvilcorris·ethics girl, 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 72 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Drom; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Drom?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 45 km west of Kilkenny and 127 km from Dublin.
How big is Drom?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 440 buildings, 0 named streets and 12 named places, which by building count makes it the 53th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Drom?
72 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Father Flynn's garden, Boney Hill and Knocka Castle.
How do you get to Drom?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Tipperary grown or shrunk?
The census counted 435,553 people in the county in 1841 and 167,895 in 2022.
440
buildings on the model
0
named streets
12
named places
21
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 Q5308251). 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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