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County Wicklow

Poulaphouca Reservoir

Poll an Phúca

Poulaphouca Reservoir covers 19 km² with 58.8 km of shore in County Wicklow, 330 m south-west of Valleymount.

Getting to the water

A public road or path on the map comes within 4 m of the shore, along about 1.4 km of it, and there are 3 more stretches like it elsewhere on the shore. That is what the map contains. It is not a statement that the public may walk there, because OpenStreetMap does not record permission, and nobody has checked this lake against its owner.

19 km²
of water
58.8 km
of shore
4
stretches of shore a way reaches
Area
19 km² measured from the mapped outline
Shore
58.8 km around the outline
Flows in
Liffey
Flows out
Liffey
County
County Wicklow
In Irish
Poll an Phúca
Public access
A public way reaches the shoreMeasured from the map, not from a statement of permission
On the map
OpenStreetMap record
Poulaphouca Reservoir, County Wicklow
Poulaphouca Reservoir, County Wicklow·瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Poulaphouca Reservoir, County Wicklow·瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Where it is

The pin sits from the main access point on the shore, and every distance on this page is measured from that same point. The other pins are the nearest lakes in County Wicklow.

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Parking, viewpoints and stops

Everything here is measured from the main access point on the shore. A viewpoint is a place that looks at the lake, which is not the same as a place on it.

Parking

An unnamed car park is 400 m away, and the walk from it to the shore is 680 m along mapped paths. The map records nothing about a charge.

Viewpoints

None mapped within 2.5 km.

Nearest stops
  • An unnamed stop320 m
  • An unnamed stop400 m
  • An unnamed stop1.4 km
  • An unnamed stop1.4 km

Getting to Poulaphouca Reservoir

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Destination, access and nearby stops

Poulaphouca Reservoir is in Valleymount, County Wicklow. Routes here end at the stretch of shore a public way reaches, which this site measured on the ground. A car park is recorded 676 m from the water, about 8 minutes on foot.

Valleymount is the nearest settlement, 330 m south-west of the lake. Arriving in Valleymount is not arriving at the water, so the journeys below are worked out to the water and say so when they cannot reach it.
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Stops near it

The nearest scheduled stop is Valleymount School (7263), 330 m away in a straight line. Use the planner to check walking connections for your journey.

  • Valleymount School 330 m
    buses 895 and 65
    Scheduled departures from this stop
  • Humphreystown 1.4 km
    buses 895 and 65
    Scheduled departures from this stop
  • Lake Drive 1.4 km
    buses 895 and 65
    Scheduled departures from this stop
  • Carrigacurra View 1.6 km
    bus 65
    Scheduled departures from this stop
  • Ballyknockan 1.6 km
    bus 65
    Scheduled departures from this stop

Getting to Valleymount covers the journeys into the town itself.

The nearest other lakes

Ordered by distance from the main access point on the shore, in a straight line, which is the same point and the same measure as the figures beside them.

Questions people ask

Can you walk to Poulaphouca Reservoir?
A public road or path comes within 4 m of the shore, along about 1.4 km of it. That is what the map shows; it is not a statement of permission, which the map does not record.
How big is Poulaphouca Reservoir?
19 km², with 58.8 km of shore, measured from the outline OpenStreetMap holds.
Where can you park for Poulaphouca Reservoir?
A car park is 400 m away, and the walk from it to the shore is 680 m along mapped paths.
How do you get to Poulaphouca Reservoir without a car?
The nearest stop in the national timetable is Valleymount School, 330 m from the main access point on the shore in a straight line, and buses 895 and 65 call there, run by TFI Local Link Carlow Kilkenny Wicklow and Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus. The planner on this page works out the walk from that stop, and where no footway joins it to the water it says so rather than making a number up.

Where this comes from

The lake itself
The outline, the name and the identifiers are OpenStreetMap records. Correct it there Figures marked Wikidata come from Q3079094.
What this site measured
The area and the shore are worked out from that outline. The stretches of shore a way reaches, the walk in from a car park and every distance on this page are worked out here, on this site’s own graph of the OpenStreetMap ways, last built on 2026-09-20. These are this site’s calculations, not the map’s, and a mistake in them is a mistake here.