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County Tipperary · Munster

About Emly

Emly, Imleach in Irish, is a village in County Tipperary, 29 km south-east of Limerick. It stands on the R515. The map gives it 569 buildings and 6 named streets, with 10 places named on them in 14 kinds, and 50 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 32th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Where
29 km south-east of Limerick, 171 km from Dublin
Position
52.4639° N, 8.3492° W
Roads
R515
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
569 buildings, 6 streets, 10 named places in 14 kinds
Photograph of the Church of St Ailbe, Emly, Co. Tipperary, on the site of an earlier cathedral and monastery
Photograph of the Church of St Ailbe, Emly, Co. Tipperary, on the site of an earlier cathedral and monastery·JohnArmagh, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Crossroads between Emly and Galbally
Crossroads between Emly and Galbally·Neil Theasby, 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 50 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R515 running through Emly.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: St. Ailbe's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Emly?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 29 km south-east of Limerick and 171 km from Dublin, on the R515.
How big is Emly?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 569 buildings, 6 named streets and 10 named places, which by building count makes it the 32th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Emly?
50 things the map records in and around it, the closest being St. Ailbe's Well, Cathedral (ruins) and Tobergobinet.
How do you get to Emly?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the R515.
Has County Tipperary grown or shrunk?
The census counted 435,553 people in the county in 1841 and 167,895 in 2022.
569
buildings on the model
6
named streets
10
named places
14
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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