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County Waterford · Munster

About Ring

Ring, An Rinn in Irish, is a village in County Waterford, 40 km south-west of Waterford. The map gives it 678 buildings and 12 named streets, with 16 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 27 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 13th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Waterford.

Population
665, as the map records it
Where
40 km south-west of Waterford, 170 km from Dublin
Position
52.0483° N, 7.5853° W
Governed
Waterford County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
678 buildings, 12 streets, 16 named places in 21 kinds
South wall of the nave, looking north-east.
South wall of the nave, looking north-east.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Coláiste na Rinne, Rinn Ó gCuanach (17826140085)
Coláiste na Rinne, Rinn Ó gCuanach (17826140085)·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 27 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

1 line calls at 5 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Coláiste na Rinne, Meánscoil San Nioclás and Scoil Naisiúnta na Rinne.

Questions people ask

Where is Ring?
In County Waterford, in the province of Munster, 40 km south-west of Waterford and 170 km from Dublin.
How big is Ring?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 678 buildings, 12 named streets and 16 named places, which by building count makes it the 13th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Waterford.
What is there to see in Ring?
27 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Saint Nicholas's Church (ruins), Imearlann na Rinne and Erin's Hope 1867.
How do you get to Ring?
1 bus and train line calls at 5 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.
678
buildings on the model
12
named streets
16
named places
21
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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