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About Crooke

Crooke, An Crúc in Irish, is a village in County Waterford, 10 km east of Waterford. The map gives it 417 buildings and 8 named streets, with 15 places named on them in 24 kinds, and 184 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 24th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Waterford.

Where
10 km east of Waterford, 134 km from Dublin
Position
52.2289° N, 6.9741° W
Governed
Waterford County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
417 buildings, 8 streets, 15 named places in 24 kinds
The river Suir at Passage East
The river Suir at Passage East·Paul O'Farrell, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
View of Creaden Head with the Hook lighthouse in the distance
View of Creaden Head with the Hook lighthouse in the distance·Paul O'Farrell, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Crooke in order

8 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1172 to 1982. That is not a history of Crooke, 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.

11721982Old Templar ChurchMedieval Museum
The twelfth century
The thirteenth century
  • the thirteenth centuryDunbrody AbbeyAbbeys · 6.2 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • the thirteenth centuryTintern AbbeyHistoric churches · 9.3 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • the thirteenth centuryReginald's TowerCastles · 9.6 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fourteenth century
  • the fourteenth centuryFethard CastleCastles · 10.0 km from the centre
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 184 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

2 lines call at 6 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Passage East National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Crooke?
In County Waterford, in the province of Munster, 10 km east of Waterford and 134 km from Dublin.
How big is Crooke?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 417 buildings, 8 named streets and 15 named places, which by building count makes it the 24th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Waterford.
What is there to see in Crooke?
184 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ivory Memorial, St. Anne's Well and Geneva Barracks.
How do you get to Crooke?
2 bus and train lines call at 6 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Waterford and TFI Local Link Wexford.
Has County Waterford grown or shrunk?
The census counted 196,187 people in the county in 1841 and 127,363 in 2022.
417
buildings on the model
8
named streets
15
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. 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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