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County Tipperary · Munster

About Puckaun

Puckaun, Pocán in Irish, is a village in County Tipperary, 40 km north-east of Limerick. The map gives it 461 buildings and 1 named street, with 11 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 94 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 48th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Where
40 km north-east of Limerick, 140 km from Dublin
Position
52.9310° N, 8.2378° W
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
461 buildings, 1 street, 11 named places in 20 kinds
Lake east of R493
Lake east of R493·David P Howard, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Killodiernan Church
Killodiernan Church·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 94 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

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: Kiladangan National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Puckaun?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 40 km north-east of Limerick and 140 km from Dublin.
How big is Puckaun?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 461 buildings, 1 named street and 11 named places, which by building count makes it the 48th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Puckaun?
94 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Clareen Lough, Poulawee Lough and Knigh Hill.
How do you get to Puckaun?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by 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.
461
buildings on the model
1
named streets
11
named places
20
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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