Town comparison · Abbeyfeale vs Adare

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Abbeyfeale or Adare?

Both towns measured at town level, not the wider Eircode area, on the same 52 figures: prices, schools, amenities, social life, commute, affluence and safety.

Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick · V94 · 1,892 people | Adare, Co. Limerick · V94 · 1,047 people

Adare is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Abbeyfeale’s 1, with 3 level.

Abbeyfeale leads on
affordability
Adare leads on
affluenceeducation levelsaccess to its nearest city
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Abbeyfeale aheadlevel or not comparableAdare ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
AbbeyfealeAdare
iBoth towns sit in the same Eircode area V94 — on the routing-key area page they would read as one number. At town level they diverge. Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it’s actually measured at. The town ahead on a row is the one in green. Scores and percentages are charted against a true 0 to 100 scale; every other row is charted against the larger of the two towns, so the bars compare but don’t imply a ceiling.

Outlines are each town’s CSO Small Areas — the exact footprint every figure is measured over.

Abbeyfeale
Adare

Size

TOWN · census

Resident population at the 2022 CSO census, summed over the Small Areas that make up each town. Not scored: a bigger town isn’t a better one, it just explains why the counts below differ.

1,892
Population
1,047

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€202k
Median sale pricelower is better
€520k
Abbeyfeale leads
€105k – €275k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€365k – €626k
61
Sales (24m)
70
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
0.0%
New-build share
22.9%

Schools, health & amenities

TOWN · counts

Facilities in and around each town — each counted once, for the town it’s closest to. Bigger towns naturally score higher — read alongside population.

2 prim · 1 sec
Schools
3 prim · 0 sec
Abbeyfeale · 3 schools (largest first)
Coláiste Íde Agus Iosaef Secondary
692 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
Convent Of Mercy N S Primary
104 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Abbeyfeale B N S 1 Primary
98 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Adare · 3 schools (largest first)
Scoil Naomh Iosaf Primary
144 pupils · Catholic
Our Ladys Abbey Primary
134 pupils · Catholic
St. Nicholas Church Of Ireland School Primary
52 pupils · Church Of Ireland
4
Creches
4
N/A
GP practices
N/A
0
Pharmacies
2
Adare leads
0
Hospitals
0
4
Bus stops
4
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
3
Gyms & leisure
4
Adare leads
1
Parks & playgrounds
2
Adare leads
15
Sports pitches
11
Abbeyfeale leads

Social life

TOWN · counts

Places to eat, drink and go out in and around each town — each counted once, for the town it’s closest to. The residents per venue row is the fairer read — raw counts just track town size, so a big town wins by being big.

1
Restaurants
8
Adare leads
1
Cafés
1
5
Pubs & bars
8
Adare leads
3
Takeaways
0
Abbeyfeale leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
189
Residents per venuelower is better
62
Adare leads

Day-to-day

TOWN · counts

The errands you run without thinking about them. Same caveat — read the residents-per-service row alongside the counts.

3
Supermarkets
0
Abbeyfeale leads
5
Convenience shops
3
Abbeyfeale leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
0
Banks
1
Adare leads
0
Post offices
1
Adare leads
1
Hairdressers
0
Abbeyfeale leads
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
1
Adare leads
4
Filling stations
2
Abbeyfeale leads
0
EV charging
2
Adare leads
0
Library & community centre
2
Adare leads
146
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
87
Adare leads

Commute by car

TOWN · from centre

Drive time from the town centre to each city centre — typical off-peak, with an estimated weekday rush hour. OSRM road routing.

58m · ~75 rush
Limericklower is better
18m · ~30 rush
Adare leads
96m · ~120 rush
Corklower is better
82m · ~105 rush
Adare leads
128m · ~150 rush
Galwaylower is better
88m · ~110 rush
Adare leads
163m · ~175 rush
Waterfordlower is better
128m · ~140 rush
Adare leads
188m · ~225 rush
Dublinlower is better
148m · ~185 rush
Adare leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-11.6
Affluence (Pobal HP)
4.2
Adare leads
Abbeyfeale · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-13AbbeyfealeDisadvantaged
-10AbbeyfealeDisadvantaged
Adare · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+3Adare SouthAbove average
+6Adare SouthAffluent
24.9%
Third-level educated
48.2%
Adare leads
27.4%
Professional class
47.7%
Adare leads
19.4%
Unemploymentlower is better
6.0%
Adare leads
60.1%
Owner-occupier
72.3%
Adare leads
20.0%
Private rental
19.8%
16.5%
Social housing (LA)
4.3%

Liveability & safety

AREA · V94 / V94

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (AbbeyfealeV94, AdareV94); safety & crime are the Limerick Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

62/100
Quality of Life
62/100

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (V94 / V94) from official data — Garda crime, CSO income & census, OPW flood, EPA water, and transport/healthcare/broadband coverage. Refreshed quarterly. The dashed line is each town’s overall score (that average) — dimensions to its right beat the average, to its left fall short. Two towns can share a score with a very different mix.

AbbeyfealeAdareOverall (avg)
Safety62426242
Affordability8989
Infrastructure8383
Family7272
Education4646
Environment6262
Economic4040
020406080100020406080100
#66
National rank
#66
#1
County rank
#1
42/100
Safety
42/100
88.4
Crime / 1,000
88.4

Affluence range

Pobal HP deprivation index, published per Electoral Division, so the spread shows the town’s poorest to richest ED. A town that is a single ED shows one mark, no range.

Abbeyfeale Disadvantaged-11.6
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Abbeyfeale -13 (least affluent) → Abbeyfeale -10 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Adare Affluent+4.2
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Adare South +3 (least affluent) → Adare South +6 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is above the national average.

How accurate is this, and at what level?

TOWN
Prices, amenities and commute are exact and town-specific.

Prices come from individual PPR sales inside the town’s Small-Area boundary; schools, GPs, transport, gyms and parks are counted the same way; commute is routed from the town centre.

ED
Affluence, profile and tenure are Electoral-Division level.

Published per Electoral Division and averaged across the town’s EDs, with a range where the town spans several.

AREA
Liveability and safety are wider-area, not the town.

Quality of life and rank are per Eircode routing key; safety and crime are the Garda division (Limerick), coarser than a town, so two towns in the same county read the same.

Population growth isn’t shown: the 2016 and 2022 censuses don’t use the same Small Areas, and the areas that were re-cut are the ones that grew, so a like-for-like comparison understates growth badly. Rent and yield are still too sparse to show per town. Built from 12 CSO Small Areas.

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