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County Tipperary · Munster

About Newport

Newport, An Port Nua in Irish, is a village in County Tipperary, 16 km east of Limerick, with 1,286 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the R503. The map gives it 1,293 buildings and 11 named streets, with 34 places named on them in 37 kinds, and 60 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 15th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Population
1,286 at the 2006 census
Where
16 km east of Limerick, 160 km from Dublin
Position
52.7107° N, 8.4061° W
Roads
R503
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
1,293 buildings, 11 streets, 34 named places in 37 kinds
The Bridewell Centre in Newport, County Tipperary
The Bridewell Centre in Newport, County Tipperary·DaHuzyBru, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Bridewell Centre in Newport, County Tipperary
The Bridewell Centre in Newport, County Tipperary·DaHuzyBru, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 60 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R503 running through Newport.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 5 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

4 school or colleges on the map: Saint Joseph's College, Newport Boys National School, Newport Convent Primary School and St. Mary's Secondary School.

Questions people ask

Where is Newport?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 16 km east of Limerick and 160 km from Dublin, on the R503.
How big is Newport?
1,286 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 1,293 buildings and 11 named streets.
What is there to see in Newport?
60 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The old mill and creamery, Church of St. John and Newport Town Park.
How do you get to Newport?
2 bus and train lines call at 5 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann 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.
1,293
buildings on the model
11
named streets
34
named places
37
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 Q2566709). 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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