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About Cheekpoint

Cheekpoint, Pointe na Síge in Irish, is a village in County Waterford, 8 km east of Waterford, with 313 people at the 2006 census. The map gives it 432 buildings and 2 named streets, with 13 places named on them in 26 kinds, and 189 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 23th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Waterford.

Population
313 at the 2006 census
Where
8 km east of Waterford, 130 km from Dublin
Position
52.2690° N, 6.9959° W
Governed
Waterford County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
432 buildings, 2 streets, 13 named places in 26 kinds
Nook Bay, Co. Wexford
Nook Bay, Co. Wexford·Redmond O'Brien, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Bridge & Approach to Snow Quay (Pier)
Bridge & Approach to Snow Quay (Pier)·Redmond O'Brien, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Cheekpoint in order

6 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the thirteenth century to 1982. That is not a history of Cheekpoint, 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 century1982Dunbrody AbbeyMedieval Museum
The thirteenth century
  • the thirteenth centuryDunbrody AbbeyAbbeys · 3.0 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • the thirteenth centuryTintern AbbeyHistoric churches · 11 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • the thirteenth centuryReginald's TowerCastles · 7.5 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The eighteenth century
The twentieth 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 189 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Cheekpoint; the roads it does record are local. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Faithlegg National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Cheekpoint?
In County Waterford, in the province of Munster, 8 km east of Waterford and 130 km from Dublin.
How big is Cheekpoint?
313 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 432 buildings and 2 named streets.
What is there to see in Cheekpoint?
189 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Cheekpoint Playground, Dobbyn's Field and The Minaun.
How do you get to Cheekpoint?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Waterford grown or shrunk?
The census counted 196,187 people in the county in 1841 and 127,363 in 2022.
432
buildings on the model
2
named streets
13
named places
26
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 Q5089280). 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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