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Tipperary
County Tipperary · Munster

About Portroe

Portroe, An Port Rua in Irish, is a village in County Tipperary, 31 km north-east of Limerick. It stands on the R494. The map gives it 602 buildings and 3 named streets, with 6 places named on them in 22 kinds, and 91 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 29th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Where
31 km north-east of Limerick, 149 km from Dublin
Position
52.8830° N, 8.3522° W
Roads
R494
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
602 buildings, 3 streets, 6 named places in 22 kinds
Portroe, County Tipperary
Portroe, County Tipperary·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Fields north of minor road
Fields north of minor road·David P Howard, 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 91 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R494 running through Portroe.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Mhuire.

Questions people ask

Where is Portroe?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 31 km north-east of Limerick and 149 km from Dublin, on the R494.
How big is Portroe?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 602 buildings, 3 named streets and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 29th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Portroe?
91 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Old Tug of War Device, Garrykennedy Forest and Garrykennedy Forest.
How do you get to Portroe?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Tipperary grown or shrunk?
The census counted 435,553 people in the county in 1841 and 167,895 in 2022.
602
buildings on the model
3
named streets
6
named places
22
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 Q4373371). 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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