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County Wexford · Leinster

About Ballyfad

Ballyfad, An Baile Fada in Irish, is a village in County Wexford, 65 km south of Dublin. The map gives it 290 buildings and 0 named streets, with 9 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 72 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 96th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.

Where
65 km south of Dublin
Position
52.7675° N, 6.2688° W
Governed
Wexford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
290 buildings, 0 streets, 9 named places in 19 kinds

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 72 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Ballyfad?
In County Wexford, in the province of Leinster, 65 km south of Dublin and 65 km from Dublin.
How big is Ballyfad?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 290 buildings, 0 named streets and 9 named places, which by building count makes it the 96th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.
What is there to see in Ballyfad?
72 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Marian Shrine, Newtown Wood and Ballyfad Wood.
How do you get to Ballyfad?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Wexford grown or shrunk?
The census counted 202,033 people in the county in 1841 and 163,919 in 2022.
290
buildings on the model
0
named streets
9
named places
19
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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