Bruree (Irish: Brú Rí, meaning 'abode of kings')[2] is a village in south-eastern County Limerick, Ireland, on the River Maigue.

[2] The village of Bruree is located on the Maigue river two kilometres off the main N20 Limerick-Cork road in south County Limerick.

Before them it may have belonged to the Dáirine or Érainn, being named by Geoffrey Keating as a fortress built by Cú Roí mac Dáire.

An early king and semi-mythological ancestor of the Eóganachta and Uí Fidgenti, Ailill Aulom, is then found at the fortress in the Cath Maige Mucrama cycle.

On the 26 August, a month after the 1919 - 1921 Irish War of Independence ended, workers in Bruree seized the mill they worked in and hoisted the red flag over the building & hung a banner over the building proclaiming "Bruree Workers Soviet Mills – We Make Bread Not Profits".