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County Tipperary · Munster

About Horse and Jockey

Horse and Jockey is a village in County Tipperary, 36 km west of Kilkenny. It stands on the M8. The map gives it 366 buildings and 1 named street, with 10 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 110 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 70th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Where
36 km west of Kilkenny, 130 km from Dublin
Position
52.6164° N, 7.7753° W
Roads
M8
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
366 buildings, 1 street, 10 named places in 23 kinds
Castles of Munster: Moycarkey, Tipperary (2)
Castles of Munster: Moycarkey, Tipperary (2)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Munster, Moycarkey, Tipperary geograph.org.uk 1542271
Castles of Munster, Moycarkey, Tipperary geograph.org.uk 1542271·Mike Searle, 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 110 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M8 running through Horse and Jockey.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Horse and Jockey?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 36 km west of Kilkenny and 130 km from Dublin, on the M8.
How big is Horse and Jockey?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 366 buildings, 1 named street and 10 named places, which by building count makes it the 70th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Horse and Jockey?
110 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Derrynaflan Loop Walk, Black Fort and Horse and Jockey.
How do you get to Horse and Jockey?
3 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bernard Kavanagh & Sons, TFI Local Link Laois Offaly and TFI Local Link Tipperary.
Has County Tipperary grown or shrunk?
The census counted 435,553 people in the county in 1841 and 167,895 in 2022.
366
buildings on the model
1
named streets
10
named places
23
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 Q339307). 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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