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County Tipperary · Munster

About Twomileborris

Twomileborris is a village in County Tipperary, 32 km west of Kilkenny. It stands on the M8 and R639. The map gives it 746 buildings and 10 named streets, with 6 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 83 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 21th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Where
32 km west of Kilkenny, 123 km from Dublin
Position
52.6717° N, 7.7200° W
Roads
M8 and R639
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
746 buildings, 10 streets, 6 named places in 21 kinds
Borris or Black Castle thrice named - Twomileborris, County Tipperary
Borris or Black Castle thrice named - Twomileborris, County Tipperary·Martin Richard Phelan, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Munster, Borris or Black Castle, Tipperary geograph.org.uk 1542314
Castles of Munster, Borris or Black Castle, Tipperary geograph.org.uk 1542314·Mike Searle, 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 83 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M8 and R639 running through Twomileborris.

By bus or train

2 lines call 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: Scoil Mochaomhóg Naofa NS.

Questions people ask

Where is Twomileborris?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 32 km west of Kilkenny and 123 km from Dublin, on the M8 and R639.
How big is Twomileborris?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 746 buildings, 10 named streets and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 21th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Twomileborris?
83 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Coolcroo Castle, Liathmore Church Ruin and Galbooly Church ruin.
How do you get to Twomileborris?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bernard Kavanagh & Sons and TFI Local Link Laois Offaly.
Has County Tipperary grown or shrunk?
The census counted 435,553 people in the county in 1841 and 167,895 in 2022.
746
buildings on the model
10
named streets
6
named places
21
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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