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County Tipperary · Munster

About Fethard

Fethard, Fiodh Ard in Irish, is a town in County Tipperary, 36 km south-west of Kilkenny. It stands on the R689, R692 and R706. The map gives it 2,190 buildings and 29 named streets, with 71 places named on them in 39 kinds, and 102 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 10th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Population
1,738, as the map records it
Where
36 km south-west of Kilkenny, 137 km from Dublin
Position
52.4672° N, 7.6911° W
Roads
R689, R692 and R706
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
2,190 buildings, 29 streets, 71 named places in 39 kinds
Town centre of Fethard, County Tipperary, Ireland
Town centre of Fethard, County Tipperary, Ireland·Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
The Aby Mill building, now in use as a theatre.
The Aby Mill building, now in use as a theatre.·A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 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 102 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R689, R692 and R706 running through Fethard. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Patrician Presentation Secondary School and Holy Trinity National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Fethard?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 36 km south-west of Kilkenny and 137 km from Dublin, on the R689, R692 and R706.
How big is Fethard?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,190 buildings, 29 named streets and 71 named places, which by building count makes it the 10th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Fethard?
102 things the map records in and around it, the closest being East Gate Park, Augustinian Priory and East Gate.
How do you get to Fethard?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bernard Kavanagh & Sons.
Has County Tipperary grown or shrunk?
The census counted 435,553 people in the county in 1841 and 167,895 in 2022.
2,190
buildings on the model
29
named streets
71
named places
39
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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