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Wexford
County Wexford · Leinster

About Wexford

Wexford, Loch Garman in Irish, is a town in County Wexford, 45 km east of Waterford, with 20,188 people at the 2016 census. It stands on the N11, N25 and R730. The map gives it 11,546 buildings and 312 named streets, with 1,068 places named on them in 231 kinds, and 155 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.

Population
20,188 at the 2016 census
Where
45 km east of Waterford, 113 km from Dublin
Position
52.3368° N, 6.4601° W, 1 m above sea level
Roads
N11, N25, R730, R733, R741, R769, R889 and L3010
Governed
Wexford County Council, in the province of Leinster
Twinned with
Couëron, France, Annapolis, United States, Lugo, Italy and Fleurus, Belgium
On the model
11,546 buildings, 312 streets, 1,068 named places in 231 kinds
Surviving west gable of one aisle of St. Mary's parish church.
Surviving west gable of one aisle of St. Mary's parish church.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
South Main Street, Wexford, 2021-06-01
South Main Street, Wexford, 2021-06-01·瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Wexford in order

8 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1169 to 1979. That is not a history of Wexford, 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.

11691979Rathlannon CastleIrish Agricultural Museum
The twelfth century
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century

County Wexford 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.

202,03383,308163,91918412022

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 155 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N11, N25, R730, R733, R741, R769, R889 and L3010 running through Wexford. 90 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 21 lines call at 90 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

14 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Wexford?
In County Wexford, in the province of Leinster, 45 km east of Waterford and 113 km from Dublin, on the N11, N25 and R730.
How big is Wexford?
20,188 people at the 2016 census. On the map it is 11,546 buildings and 312 named streets.
What is there to see in Wexford?
155 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Halla Kenny, St. Mary's Church and Commodore John Barry Memorial.
How do you get to Wexford?
21 bus and train lines call at 90 stops here in the published timetable, run by Ardcavan Coach Tours, Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Wexford grown or shrunk?
The census counted 202,033 people in the county in 1841 and 163,919 in 2022.
11,546
buildings on the model
312
named streets
1068
named places
231
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 Q209126). 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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