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About Ballymacarbry

Ballymacarbry, Baile Mhac Cairbre in Irish, is a village in County Waterford, 41 km west of Waterford. It stands on the R671. The map gives it 468 buildings and 6 named streets, with 11 places named on them in 24 kinds, and 98 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 20th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Waterford.

Where
41 km west of Waterford, 155 km from Dublin
Position
52.2676° N, 7.7210° W
Roads
R671
Governed
Waterford County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
468 buildings, 6 streets, 11 named places in 24 kinds
Roadside Shrine
Roadside Shrine·Hywel Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Cottage next to Post Office, Ballymacarbry
Cottage next to Post Office, Ballymacarbry·ethics girl, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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 98 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R671 running through Ballymacarbry.

By bus or train

1 line calls 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 Ballymacarbry?
In County Waterford, in the province of Munster, 41 km west of Waterford and 155 km from Dublin, on the R671.
How big is Ballymacarbry?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 468 buildings, 6 named streets and 11 named places, which by building count makes it the 20th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Waterford.
What is there to see in Ballymacarbry?
98 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Laeka Wood, Laeka Wood and Curraghcloney Castle.
How do you get to Ballymacarbry?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Waterford.
Has County Waterford grown or shrunk?
The census counted 196,187 people in the county in 1841 and 127,363 in 2022.
468
buildings on the model
6
named streets
11
named places
24
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 Q4852196). 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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