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County Tipperary · Munster

About Knockavilla

Knockavilla is a village in County Tipperary, 44 km east of Limerick. It stands on the R505. The map gives it 484 buildings and 6 named streets, with 12 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 101 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 43th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Where
44 km east of Limerick, 147 km from Dublin
Position
52.5478° N, 8.0123° W
Roads
R505
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
484 buildings, 6 streets, 12 named places in 21 kinds
Castles of Munster: Killenure, Tipperary (2)
Castles of Munster: Killenure, Tipperary (2)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Munster: Killenure, Tipperary (1)
Castles of Munster: Killenure, Tipperary (1)·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 101 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R505 running through Knockavilla.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Knockavilla?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 44 km east of Limerick and 147 km from Dublin, on the R505.
How big is Knockavilla?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 484 buildings, 6 named streets and 12 named places, which by building count makes it the 43th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Knockavilla?
101 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Killenure Castle, Woodcock Grove and Spa Well.
How do you get to Knockavilla?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the R505.
Has County Tipperary grown or shrunk?
The census counted 435,553 people in the county in 1841 and 167,895 in 2022.
484
buildings on the model
6
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. 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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