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County Tipperary · Munster

About Holycross

Holycross, Mainistir na Croiche in Irish, is a village in County Tipperary, 42 km west of Kilkenny. The map gives it 977 buildings and 6 named streets, with 16 places named on them in 24 kinds, and 101 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 16th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Where
42 km west of Kilkenny, 133 km from Dublin
Position
52.6383° N, 7.8670° W
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
977 buildings, 6 streets, 16 named places in 24 kinds
River, Abbey, Ducks The River Suir in Holycross, County Tipperary
River, Abbey, Ducks The River Suir in Holycross, County Tipperary·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Holycross Abbey church masons' mark
Holycross Abbey church masons' mark·A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Holycross in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1169 to 1885. That is not a history of Holycross, 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.

11691885Holycross AbbeyHolycross Ballycahill GAA Club
The twelfth century
  • 1169Holycross AbbeyChurches · in the centre · national monument of Ireland
The nineteenth 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 101 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: St. Michael's NS Holycross.

Questions people ask

Where is Holycross?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 42 km west of Kilkenny and 133 km from Dublin.
How big is Holycross?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 977 buildings, 6 named streets and 16 named places, which by building count makes it the 16th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Holycross?
101 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Derrynaflan Trail, Black Fort and Cormackstown Heritage Centre.
How do you get to Holycross?
1 bus and train line calls 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.
977
buildings on the model
6
named streets
16
named places
24
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 Q4499047). 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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