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County Tipperary · Munster

About Littleton

Littleton, An Baile Beag in Irish, is a village in County Tipperary, 33 km west of Kilkenny. It stands on the M8 and R639. The map gives it 879 buildings and 9 named streets, with 15 places named on them in 26 kinds, and 99 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 18th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Where
33 km west of Kilkenny, 127 km from Dublin
Position
52.6394° N, 7.7381° W
Roads
M8 and R639
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
879 buildings, 9 streets, 15 named places in 26 kinds
Castles of Munster, Ballybeg, Tipperary geograph.org.uk 1542301
Castles of Munster, Ballybeg, Tipperary geograph.org.uk 1542301·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Littleton, County Tipperary A village on the main Dublin-Cork road, till the M8 bypassed it.
Littleton, County Tipperary A village on the main Dublin-Cork road, till the M8 bypassed it.·Sarah777, 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 99 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M8 and R639 running through Littleton.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Littleton?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 33 km west of Kilkenny and 127 km from Dublin, on the M8 and R639.
How big is Littleton?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 879 buildings, 9 named streets and 15 named places, which by building count makes it the 18th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Littleton?
99 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ballydavid Castle, Ballybeg Castle and Ballymoreen Castle.
How do you get to Littleton?
3 bus and train lines call at 4 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.
879
buildings on the model
9
named streets
15
named places
26
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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