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About Tallow

Tallow, Tulach an Iarainn in Irish, is a town in County Waterford, 38 km north-east of Cork. It stands on the R627, R628 and R634. The map gives it 1,590 buildings and 15 named streets, with 28 places named on them in 29 kinds, and 52 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 8th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Waterford.

Where
38 km north-east of Cork, 183 km from Dublin
Position
52.0932° N, 8.0078° W
Roads
R627, R628 and R634
Governed
Waterford County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
1,590 buildings, 15 streets, 28 named places in 29 kinds
Tallow, County Waterford, Ireland Convent Street as seen from the north
Tallow, County Waterford, Ireland Convent Street as seen from the north·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Tallow, County Waterford, Ireland Main Street as seen from the south
Tallow, County Waterford, Ireland Main Street as seen from the south·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Tallow in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1185 to 1887. That is not a history of Tallow, 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.

11851887Lismore CastleTallow GAA Club
The twelfth century
The nineteenth 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 52 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R627, R628 and R634 running through Tallow.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Scoil Mhuire National School and Curraglass National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Tallow?
In County Waterford, in the province of Munster, 38 km north-east of Cork and 183 km from Dublin, on the R627, R628 and R634.
How big is Tallow?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,590 buildings, 15 named streets and 28 named places, which by building count makes it the 8th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Waterford.
What is there to see in Tallow?
52 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lisfinny Castle, Tallowhill Wood and Tallowhill Wood.
How do you get to Tallow?
2 bus and train lines call at 4 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.
1,590
buildings on the model
15
named streets
28
named places
29
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 Q4450529). 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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