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County Wexford · Leinster

About Newbawn

Newbawn, An Bábhún Nua in Irish, is a village in County Wexford, 24 km north-east of Waterford. The map gives it 518 buildings and 3 named streets, with 8 places named on them in 24 kinds, and 121 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 50th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.

Where
24 km north-east of Waterford, 117 km from Dublin
Position
52.3429° N, 6.7905° W
Governed
Wexford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
518 buildings, 3 streets, 8 named places in 24 kinds
Browne-Clayton Monument
Browne-Clayton Monument·Roger W Haworth, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Private road, Carrigadaggan
Private road, Carrigadaggan·Jonathan Thacker, 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 121 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

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: Sacred Heart National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Newbawn?
In County Wexford, in the province of Leinster, 24 km north-east of Waterford and 117 km from Dublin.
How big is Newbawn?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 518 buildings, 3 named streets and 8 named places, which by building count makes it the 50th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.
What is there to see in Newbawn?
121 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Castle (In Ruins), '98 Memorial and Carrickbyrne Hill.
How do you get to Newbawn?
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.
518
buildings on the model
3
named streets
8
named places
24
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 Q4328353). 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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