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County Wexford · Leinster

About Castletown

Castletown, Baile an Chaisleáin in Irish, is a village in County Wexford, 70 km south of Dublin. It stands on the L1000 and L1002. The map gives it 937 buildings and 3 named streets, with 8 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 58 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 19th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.

Where
70 km south of Dublin
Position
52.7224° N, 6.1891° W
Roads
L1000 and L1002
Governed
Wexford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
937 buildings, 3 streets, 8 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.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 58 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L1000 and L1002 running through Castletown. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Castletown?
In County Wexford, in the province of Leinster, 70 km south of Dublin and 70 km from Dublin, on the L1000 and L1002.
How big is Castletown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 937 buildings, 3 named streets and 8 named places, which by building count makes it the 19th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.
What is there to see in Castletown?
58 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Saint Patrick's Chapel (ruins), Moat and Kilgorman Well.
How do you get to Castletown?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the L1000 and L1002.
Has County Wexford grown or shrunk?
The census counted 202,033 people in the county in 1841 and 163,919 in 2022.
937
buildings on the model
3
named streets
8
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 (item Q4216664). 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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