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About Bunmahon

Bunmahon, Bun Machan in Irish, is a village in County Waterford, 22 km south-west of Waterford. The map gives it 510 buildings and 4 named streets, with 25 places named on them in 24 kinds, and 44 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 16th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Waterford.

Where
22 km south-west of Waterford, 154 km from Dublin
Position
52.1399° N, 7.3709° W
Governed
Waterford County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
510 buildings, 4 streets, 25 named places in 24 kinds
Group Pictures (6978062314)
Group Pictures (6978062314)·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
Group in motor cars, Bunmahon, Co. Waterford (5774924883)
Group in motor cars, Bunmahon, Co. Waterford (5774924883)·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions 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 44 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Bunmahon; the roads it does record are local.

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

2 school or colleges on the map: Knockmahon National School and Seafield National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Bunmahon?
In County Waterford, in the province of Munster, 22 km south-west of Waterford and 154 km from Dublin.
How big is Bunmahon?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 510 buildings, 4 named streets and 25 named places, which by building count makes it the 16th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Waterford.
What is there to see in Bunmahon?
44 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Bunmahon Miners' Cottages, Bunmahon Strand and Miners Bucket.
How do you get to Bunmahon?
2 bus and train lines call 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.
510
buildings on the model
4
named streets
25
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 Q4077410). 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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