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About Cahore

Cahore, Cathóir in Irish, is a village in County Wexford, 70 km north-east of Waterford. The map gives it 778 buildings and 2 named streets, with 15 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 47 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 23th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.

Where
70 km north-east of Waterford, 87 km from Dublin
Position
52.5662° N, 6.2029° W
Governed
Wexford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
778 buildings, 2 streets, 15 named places in 18 kinds
Former RNLI Lifeboat House, Cahore Co. Wexford, closed 1916
Former RNLI Lifeboat House, Cahore Co. Wexford, closed 1916·Ojsyork, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
View of the Irish sea from Cahore, Co. Wexford during a heatwave, July 2013.
View of the Irish sea from Cahore, Co. Wexford during a heatwave, July 2013.·Jackpollock, CC BY-SA 3.0 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 47 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Cahore; the roads it does record are local. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Cahore?
In County Wexford, in the province of Leinster, 70 km north-east of Waterford and 87 km from Dublin.
How big is Cahore?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 778 buildings, 2 named streets and 15 named places, which by building count makes it the 23th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.
What is there to see in Cahore?
47 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lookout Tower, Cahore Beach and Nick Corish Monument.
How do you get to Cahore?
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.
778
buildings on the model
2
named streets
15
named places
18
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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