Town

Hospital

An tOspidéal

Hospital is a town in Limerick. Explore its recorded names and geographic context.

Recorded locationHospital52.47312° N · 8.43046° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.

Recorded place location · Logainm.ieOpen in OpenStreetMap ↗

The name

A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.

Recorded forms

An tOspidéal · Irish · main form · validated name
Hospital · English · main form

Geographic information

Place type: Town
County: Limerick
Barony: Smallcounty
Civil parish: Hospital
Coordinates: 52.47312, -8.43046
Logainm ID: 1166553 ↗

Population over time

Hospital — Census 2016 settlement footprint

Population within 2016 settlement boundaries

670people · 2022

Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.

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Hospital — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
Census year	Population
2016	653
2022	670

Source: CSO Census 2022 Profile 1 — Appendix Table 1: Census 2022 De Facto Population for the 2016 Towns · Supporting source 1. CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-10-25.

Other census areas and years

These figures use different area definitions. Read the boundary note before comparing them.

Hospital, Limerick

Published census settlement populations

653people · 2016

Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.

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Hospital, Limerick — census population
Census year	Population
2011	630
2016	653

Source: CSO E2016 — Population and Actual and Percentage Change 2011 to 2016. CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-10-25.

Hospital, Co Limerick — Census 2022 Built Up Area

Built Up Area population, 2022

674people · 2022

Built Up Areas use a new land-use definition. Their population figures cannot be compared directly with Census 2016 settlement counts.

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Hospital, Co Limerick — Census 2022 Built Up Area — census population
Census year	Population
2022	674

Source: CSO F1015 — Population, Census 2022 Built Up Areas. CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-10-25.

Sources & further reading

Logainm.ie — Hospital. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-07-28. How this page was prepared.