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About Ballycanew

Ballycanew, Baile Uí Chonnmhaí in Irish, is a village in County Wexford, 64 km east of Kilkenny. It stands on the L1030. The map gives it 810 buildings and 10 named streets, with 16 places named on them in 29 kinds, and 69 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 22th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.

Where
64 km east of Kilkenny, 82 km from Dublin
Position
52.6092° N, 6.3044° W, 60 m above sea level
Roads
L1030
Governed
Wexford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
810 buildings, 10 streets, 16 named places in 29 kinds
Ballycanew Mill [1]
Ballycanew Mill [1]·Michael Dibb, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ballycanew Mill [2]
Ballycanew Mill [2]·Michael Dibb, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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 69 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L1030 running through Ballycanew.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 5 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Ballycanew National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballycanew?
In County Wexford, in the province of Leinster, 64 km east of Kilkenny and 82 km from Dublin, on the L1030.
How big is Ballycanew?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 810 buildings, 10 named streets and 16 named places, which by building count makes it the 22th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.
What is there to see in Ballycanew?
69 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Barnadown Wood, Barnadown Wood and Boley Hill.
How do you get to Ballycanew?
3 bus and train lines call at 5 stops here in the published timetable, run by Gorey Bus Links, Matt Whelan Mini Bus Hire and Wexford Bus.
Has County Wexford grown or shrunk?
The census counted 202,033 people in the county in 1841 and 163,919 in 2022.
810
buildings on the model
10
named streets
16
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 Q4076752). 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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