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County Wexford · Leinster

About Gorey

Gorey, Guaire in Irish, is a town in County Wexford, 65 km east of Kilkenny, with 11,517 people at the 2022 census. It stands on the M11, R725 and R732. The map gives it 6,365 buildings and 119 named streets, with 378 places named on them in 126 kinds, and 66 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the third largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.

Population
11,517 at the 2022 census
Where
65 km east of Kilkenny, 75 km from Dublin
Position
52.6761° N, 6.2928° W, 48 m above sea level
Roads
M11, R725, R732, R741, R742, R772, L1001 and L1011
Governed
Wexford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
6,365 buildings, 119 streets, 378 named places in 126 kinds
Esmonde Street December 2016
Esmonde Street December 2016·AmyEastwood, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Long Cars, Gorey, Co. Wexford (17049250847)
Long Cars, Gorey, Co. Wexford (17049250847)·Robert French, no restrictions 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 66 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M11, R725, R732, R741, R742, R772, L1001 and L1011 running through Gorey. 40 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 11 lines call at 17 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

7 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Gorey?
In County Wexford, in the province of Leinster, 65 km east of Kilkenny and 75 km from Dublin, on the M11, R725 and R732.
How big is Gorey?
11,517 people at the 2022 census. On the map it is 6,365 buildings and 119 named streets.
What is there to see in Gorey?
66 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Gorey Tourist Office, Market House and Gorey Park.
How do you get to Gorey?
11 bus and train lines call at 17 stops here in the published timetable, run by BIFE Bus, Bus Éireann and Gorey Bus Links. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Wexford grown or shrunk?
The census counted 202,033 people in the county in 1841 and 163,919 in 2022.
6,365
buildings on the model
119
named streets
378
named places
126
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 Q1004664). 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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