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About Carrick

Carrick, An Charraig in Irish, is a village in County Wexford, 26 km east of Waterford. It stands on the R736 and L3069. The map gives it 720 buildings and 7 named streets, with 23 places named on them in 28 kinds, and 100 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 28th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.

Population
391, as the map records it
Where
26 km east of Waterford, 127 km from Dublin
Position
52.2406° N, 6.7315° W
Roads
R736 and L3069
Governed
Wexford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
720 buildings, 7 streets, 23 named places in 28 kinds
Castles of Leinster: Danes Castle, Wexford
Castles of Leinster: Danes Castle, Wexford·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Leinster: Coolhull, Wexford (1)
Castles of Leinster: Coolhull, Wexford (1)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Carrick in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the thirteenth century to 1822. That is not a history of Carrick, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

the thirteenth century1822Tintern AbbeySaint Paul's Church
The thirteenth century
  • the thirteenth centuryTintern AbbeyHistoric churches · 7.3 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fourteenth century
The nineteenth century

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 100 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R736 and L3069 running through Carrick.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Carrick?
In County Wexford, in the province of Leinster, 26 km east of Waterford and 127 km from Dublin, on the R736 and L3069.
How big is Carrick?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 720 buildings, 7 named streets and 23 named places, which by building count makes it the 28th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.
What is there to see in Carrick?
100 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Carrig-On-Bannow, 1798 Memorial and Church (Site of).
How do you get to Carrick?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by 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.
720
buildings on the model
7
named streets
23
named places
28
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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