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About Portlaw

Portlaw, Port Lách in Irish, is a town in County Waterford, 15 km west of Waterford. It stands on the N24, R680 and L4033. The map gives it 1,579 buildings and 41 named streets, with 59 places named on them in 44 kinds, and 113 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 9th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Waterford.

Population
1,881, as the map records it
Where
15 km west of Waterford, 138 km from Dublin
Position
52.2883° N, 7.3205° W, 40 m above sea level
Roads
N24, R680 and L4033
Governed
Waterford County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
1,579 buildings, 41 streets, 59 named places in 44 kinds
Lady Susan Beresford with horse Ireland 1900 AH Poole Studio Photograph (6515291955)
Lady Susan Beresford with horse Ireland 1900 AH Poole Studio Photograph (6515291955)·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
The Port, the Law, and the Polis 53540297980
The Port, the Law, and the Polis 53540297980·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 113 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N24, R680 and L4033 running through Portlaw.

By bus or train

1 line calls 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: Portlaw National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Portlaw?
In County Waterford, in the province of Munster, 15 km west of Waterford and 138 km from Dublin, on the N24, R680 and L4033.
How big is Portlaw?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,579 buildings, 41 named streets and 59 named places, which by building count makes it the 9th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Waterford.
What is there to see in Portlaw?
113 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Grotto, Portlaw Heritage Centre and Tannery Ruins.
How do you get to Portlaw?
1 bus and train line calls at 6 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Waterford grown or shrunk?
The census counted 196,187 people in the county in 1841 and 127,363 in 2022.
1,579
buildings on the model
41
named streets
59
named places
44
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 Q2082363). 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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