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County Wexford · Leinster

About Blackwater

Blackwater, An Abhainn Dubh in Irish, is a village in County Wexford, 56 km east of Waterford. It stands on the L2031 and L2044. The map gives it 1,168 buildings and 18 named streets, with 30 places named on them in 35 kinds, and 90 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 14th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.

Where
56 km east of Waterford, 101 km from Dublin
Position
52.4469° N, 6.3475° W, 48 m above sea level
Roads
L2031 and L2044
Governed
Wexford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,168 buildings, 18 streets, 30 named places in 35 kinds
County Wexford, Blackwater Bridge.
County Wexford, Blackwater Bridge.·Thommcg1980, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Blackwater Bridge
Blackwater Bridge·Andrew McCarthy, 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 90 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L2031 and L2044 running through Blackwater. 8 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 1 stop here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Naomh Bríde National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Blackwater?
In County Wexford, in the province of Leinster, 56 km east of Waterford and 101 km from Dublin, on the L2031 and L2044.
How big is Blackwater?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,168 buildings, 18 named streets and 30 named places, which by building count makes it the 14th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.
What is there to see in Blackwater?
90 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Memorial to The Pomona, 1798 Insurrection Memorial and Blackwater Community Playground.
How do you get to Blackwater?
2 bus and train lines call at 1 stop here in the published timetable, run by Michael Gray Coach Hire.
Has County Wexford grown or shrunk?
The census counted 202,033 people in the county in 1841 and 163,919 in 2022.
1,168
buildings on the model
18
named streets
30
named places
35
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 Q3776321). 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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