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Waterford
County Waterford · Munster

About Waterford

Waterford, Port Láirge in Irish, is a city in County Waterford, 44 km south of Kilkenny, with 48,369 people at the 2016 census. It stands on the M9, N25 and N29. The map gives it 31,853 buildings and 907 named streets, with 1,413 places named on them in 234 kinds, and 191 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Waterford.

Population
48,369 at the 2016 census
Where
44 km south of Kilkenny, 134 km from Dublin
Position
52.2610° N, 7.1119° W
Area
41.58 km²
Roads
M9, N25, N29, N9, R448, R675, R680 and R683
Governed
Waterford County Council, in the province of Munster
Twinned with
Rochester, United States, Saint-Herblain, France, St. John's, Canada, Køge, Denmark and Ramallah, Ottoman Empire
On the model
31,853 buildings, 907 streets, 1,413 named places in 234 kinds
Nave of Holy Trinity Cathedral, looking east.
Nave of Holy Trinity Cathedral, looking east.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Portico of Holy Trinity Cathedral, as seen from Barronstrand Street, looking north-east.
Portico of Holy Trinity Cathedral, as seen from Barronstrand Street, looking north-east.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Waterford in order

24 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the thirteenth century to 2015. That is not a history of Waterford, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

the thirteenth century2015Dunbrody AbbeySouthern Regional Assembly
The thirteenth century
  • the thirteenth centuryDunbrody AbbeyAbbeys · 11 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • the thirteenth centuryReginald's TowerCastles · 450 m from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first century

County Waterford 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.

196,18771,439127,36318412022

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 191 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M9, N25, N29, N9, R448, R675, R680 and R683 running through Waterford. 53 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 30 lines call at 195 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

32 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Waterford?
In County Waterford, in the province of Munster, 44 km south of Kilkenny and 134 km from Dublin, on the M9, N25 and N29.
How big is Waterford?
48,369 people at the 2016 census. On the map it is 31,853 buildings and 907 named streets.
What is there to see in Waterford?
191 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Great Escape, Beach Tower and Port of Waterford Company building.
How do you get to Waterford?
30 bus and train lines call at 195 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Bus Éireann Waterford and Dublin Coach. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Waterford grown or shrunk?
The census counted 196,187 people in the county in 1841 and 127,363 in 2022.
31,853
buildings on the model
907
named streets
1413
named places
234
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 Q183551). 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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