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About Lismore

Lismore, Lios Mór in Irish, is a town in County Waterford, 45 km north-east of Cork. It stands on the N72, R666 and R668. The map gives it 2,220 buildings and 35 named streets, with 66 places named on them in 43 kinds, and 63 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 4th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Waterford.

Where
45 km north-east of Cork, 176 km from Dublin
Position
52.1368° N, 7.9331° W, 86 m above sea level
Roads
N72, R666, R668 and L1103
Governed
Waterford County Council, in the province of Munster
Twinned with
Lismore, Australia
On the model
2,220 buildings, 35 streets, 66 named places in 43 kinds
Lismore House Hotel (2)
Lismore House Hotel (2)·A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Devonshire Arms Hotel, Lismore, Co. Waterford (22082013573)
Devonshire Arms Hotel, Lismore, Co. Waterford (22082013573)·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Lismore in order

5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1185 to 2002. That is not a history of Lismore, 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.

11852002Lismore CastleBlackwater Community School
The twelfth century
The thirteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twenty-first century

County Waterford 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.

196,18771,439127,36318412022

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 records the N72, R666, R668 and L1103 running through Lismore.

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

3 school or colleges on the map: Bunscoil Bhothar na Naomh, Blackwater Community School and Liosmór Mochuda National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Lismore?
In County Waterford, in the province of Munster, 45 km north-east of Cork and 176 km from Dublin, on the N72, R666 and R668.
How big is Lismore?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,220 buildings, 35 named streets and 66 named places, which by building count makes it the 4th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Waterford.
What is there to see in Lismore?
63 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Visitor Centre, Ambrose Power Memorial and Lismore Townpark.
How do you get to Lismore?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Waterford.
Has County Waterford grown or shrunk?
The census counted 196,187 people in the county in 1841 and 127,363 in 2022.
2,220
buildings on the model
35
named streets
66
named places
43
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 Q1828038). 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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