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County Tipperary · Munster

About Roscrea

Roscrea, Ros Cré in Irish, is a town in County Tipperary, 50 km north-west of Kilkenny. It stands on the M7, N62 and R421. The map gives it 4,407 buildings and 57 named streets, with 184 places named on them in 87 kinds, and 52 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 6th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Where
50 km north-west of Kilkenny, 112 km from Dublin
Position
52.9552° N, 7.7990° W, 126 m above sea level
Roads
M7, N62, R421, R445, R491, L3100, L3139 and L3140
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
4,407 buildings, 57 streets, 184 named places in 87 kinds
Roscrea Castle sketch
Roscrea Castle sketch·Mary Dillon, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Sketch of Church St., RosCré
Sketch of Church St., RosCré·Mary Dillon, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Roscrea in order

7 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the twelfth century to 1878. That is not a history of Roscrea, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

the twelfth century1878Monaincha AbbeyMount Saint Joseph's Abbey
The twelfth century
  • the twelfth centuryMonaincha AbbeyHistoric churches · 3.6 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • the twelfth centuryRoscrea ChurchRuins · 230 m from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The thirteenth century
The fourteenth century
  • the 1400sRoscrea AbbeyAbbeys · 280 m from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The seventeenth century
The nineteenth century

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 52 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M7, N62, R421, R445, R491, L3100, L3139 and L3140 running through Roscrea. 4 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 6 lines call at 7 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

4 school or colleges on the map: Cistercian College, Saint Cronans National School, Dromakeenan National School and St Joseph's National School Corville.

Questions people ask

Where is Roscrea?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 50 km north-west of Kilkenny and 112 km from Dublin, on the M7, N62 and R421.
How big is Roscrea?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 4,407 buildings, 57 named streets and 184 named places, which by building count makes it the 6th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Roscrea?
52 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Roscrea Castle, Saint Cronans Cross and Glebe Field.
How do you get to Roscrea?
6 bus and train lines call at 7 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bernard Kavanagh & Sons, Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail and JJ Kavanagh. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Tipperary grown or shrunk?
The census counted 435,553 people in the county in 1841 and 167,895 in 2022.
4,407
buildings on the model
57
named streets
184
named places
87
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 Q1003178). 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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