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County Tipperary · Munster

About Thurles

Thurles, Durlas in Irish, is a town in County Tipperary, 38 km west of Kilkenny. It stands on the N62, N75 and R498. The map gives it 6,716 buildings and 86 named streets, with 346 places named on them in 125 kinds, and 87 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the second largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Population
8,185, as the map records it
Where
38 km west of Kilkenny, 128 km from Dublin
Position
52.6802° N, 7.8151° W, 99 m above sea level
Roads
N62, N75, R498, R659, R660 and L4039
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
6,716 buildings, 86 streets, 346 named places in 125 kinds
Delivering Peat (4769245130)
Delivering Peat (4769245130)·OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
South façade including baptistry, east transept and auxiliary buildings.
South façade including baptistry, east transept and auxiliary buildings.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Thurles in order

5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1879 to 2007. That is not a history of Thurles, 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.

18792007Cathedral Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin MarySetanta College
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first 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 87 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N62, N75, R498, R659, R660 and L4039 running through Thurles. 4 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 12 lines call at 8 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

9 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Thurles?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 38 km west of Kilkenny and 128 km from Dublin, on the N62, N75 and R498.
How big is Thurles?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 6,716 buildings, 86 named streets and 346 named places, which by building count makes it the 2th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Thurles?
87 things the map records in and around it, the closest being MacLochlainn Road Markings Ltd. shrine, Black Castle and Lár na Páirce.
How do you get to Thurles?
12 bus and train lines call at 8 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bernard Kavanagh & Sons, Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail and TFI Local Link Laois Offaly. 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.
6,716
buildings on the model
86
named streets
346
named places
125
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 Q383188). 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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