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County Tipperary · Munster

About Rear Cross

Rear Cross, Crois na Rae in Irish, is a village in County Tipperary, 27 km east of Limerick. The map gives it 369 buildings and 0 named streets, with 6 places named on them in 17 kinds, and 63 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 69th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Where
27 km east of Limerick, 151 km from Dublin
Position
52.6863° N, 8.2382° W
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
369 buildings, 0 streets, 6 named places in 17 kinds
Rearcross, County Tipperary
Rearcross, County Tipperary·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Abandoned House near Rear Cross
Abandoned House near Rear Cross·Colm Linnane, 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 63 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Rearcross National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Rear Cross?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 27 km east of Limerick and 151 km from Dublin.
How big is Rear Cross?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 369 buildings, 0 named streets and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 69th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Rear Cross?
63 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Dermot & Grania's Bed, Cullaun and Slieve Felim East Top.
How do you get to Rear Cross?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop 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.
369
buildings on the model
0
named streets
6
named places
17
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 Q4394775). 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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