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County Tipperary · Munster

About Silvermines

Silvermines, Béal Átha Gabhann in Irish, is a village in County Tipperary, 30 km north-east of Limerick. The map gives it 465 buildings and 2 named streets, with 10 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 81 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 47th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Where
30 km north-east of Limerick, 146 km from Dublin
Position
52.7929° N, 8.2387° W
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
465 buildings, 2 streets, 10 named places in 20 kinds
View north from Silvermine Mountains
View north from Silvermine Mountains·David P Howard, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Picnic site and viewpoint in Silvermine Mountains, Co. Tipperary
Picnic site and viewpoint in Silvermine Mountains, Co. Tipperary·P L Chadwick, 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 81 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Silvermines; 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: Silvermines NS.

Questions people ask

Where is Silvermines?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 30 km north-east of Limerick and 146 km from Dublin.
How big is Silvermines?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 465 buildings, 2 named streets and 10 named places, which by building count makes it the 47th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Silvermines?
81 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Cuan Mhuire, The Miner and Our Lady Assumed into Heaven.
How do you get to Silvermines?
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.
465
buildings on the model
2
named streets
10
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 (item Q2670546). 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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