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About Waterville

Waterville, An Coireán in Irish, is a village in County Kerry, 117 km west of Cork. It stands on the N70. The map gives it 865 buildings and 6 named streets, with 39 places named on them in 30 kinds, and 136 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 18th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.

Where
117 km west of Cork, 314 km from Dublin
Position
51.8271° N, 10.1718° W
Roads
N70
Governed
Kerry County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
865 buildings, 6 streets, 39 named places in 30 kinds
Comedy Film Festival Centre
Comedy Film Festival Centre·N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Slipway over beach at Waterville
Slipway over beach at Waterville·Martin Dawes, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Kerry 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.

293,880112,772156,45818412022

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 136 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N70 running through Waterville.

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

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Waterville?
In County Kerry, in the province of Munster, 117 km west of Cork and 314 km from Dublin, on the N70.
How big is Waterville?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 865 buildings, 6 named streets and 39 named places, which by building count makes it the 18th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.
What is there to see in Waterville?
136 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Butler Memorial, Waterville Heritage Trail and Ballinskelligs Bay memorial.
How do you get to Waterville?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Kerry.
Has County Kerry grown or shrunk?
The census counted 293,880 people in the county in 1841 and 156,458 in 2022.
865
buildings on the model
6
named streets
39
named places
30
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 Q2474186). 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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