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County Wexford · Leinster

About Bunclody

Bunclody, Bun Clóidi in Irish, is a town in County Wexford, 40 km east of Kilkenny, with 1,863 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the N80, R746 and L2005. The map gives it 1,823 buildings and 20 named streets, with 40 places named on them in 33 kinds, and 53 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 8th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.

Population
1,863 at the 2006 census
Where
40 km east of Kilkenny, 82 km from Dublin
Position
52.6551° N, 6.6521° W, 52 m above sea level
Roads
N80, R746, L2005 and L2026
Governed
Wexford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,823 buildings, 20 streets, 40 named places in 33 kinds
Main Street, Bunclody
Main Street, Bunclody·Alex Passmore, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Holy Trinity Church
Holy Trinity Church·N Chadwick, 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 53 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N80, R746, L2005 and L2026 running through Bunclody. 6 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

4 lines call at 10 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Bunclody Community College and FCJ Secondary School.

Questions people ask

Where is Bunclody?
In County Wexford, in the province of Leinster, 40 km east of Kilkenny and 82 km from Dublin, on the N80, R746 and L2005.
How big is Bunclody?
1,863 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 1,823 buildings and 20 named streets.
What is there to see in Bunclody?
53 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Bunclody 1798 Bicentenary Memorial, 1798 rebellion Battle of Newtownbarry (AKA Bunclody) commemorative plaque and Tourist Office.
How do you get to Bunclody?
4 bus and train lines call at 10 stops here in the published timetable, run by Ardcavan Coach Tours, Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Wexford.
Has County Wexford grown or shrunk?
The census counted 202,033 people in the county in 1841 and 163,919 in 2022.
1,823
buildings on the model
20
named streets
40
named places
33
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 Q1004970). 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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