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County Tipperary · Munster

About New Birmingham

New Birmingham, Gleann an Ghuail in Irish, is a village in County Tipperary, 26 km west of Kilkenny. The map gives it 356 buildings and 0 named streets, with 5 places named on them in 16 kinds, and 96 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 72th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Where
26 km west of Kilkenny, 123 km from Dublin
Position
52.6172° N, 7.6399° W, 172 m above sea level
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
356 buildings, 0 streets, 5 named places in 16 kinds
The R689 heading for Gortnahoo
The R689 heading for Gortnahoo·David Purchase, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
SS. Patrick & Oliver church, Glengoole
SS. Patrick & Oliver church, Glengoole·David Purchase, 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 96 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

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

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is New Birmingham?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 26 km west of Kilkenny and 123 km from Dublin.
How big is New Birmingham?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 356 buildings, 0 named streets and 5 named places, which by building count makes it the 72th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in New Birmingham?
96 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ballinalacken Church, Waterloo Hill and Derryvella church (site).
How do you get to New Birmingham?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bernard Kavanagh & Sons 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.
356
buildings on the model
0
named streets
5
named places
16
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 Q7005548). 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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