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County Wexford · Leinster

About Oilgate

Oilgate, Maolán na nGabhar in Irish, is a village in County Wexford, 43 km north-east of Waterford. The map gives it 682 buildings and 1 named street, with 12 places named on them in 25 kinds, and 119 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 33th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.

Population
401, as the map records it
Where
43 km north-east of Waterford, 105 km from Dublin
Position
52.4238° N, 6.5307° W
Governed
Wexford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
682 buildings, 1 street, 12 named places in 25 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.

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 119 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

6 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Oilgate?
In County Wexford, in the province of Leinster, 43 km north-east of Waterford and 105 km from Dublin.
How big is Oilgate?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 682 buildings, 1 named street and 12 named places, which by building count makes it the 33th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.
What is there to see in Oilgate?
119 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Saint David, Saint David's Well and Scurlocksbush Hill.
How do you get to Oilgate?
6 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and Wexford Bus.
Has County Wexford grown or shrunk?
The census counted 202,033 people in the county in 1841 and 163,919 in 2022.
682
buildings on the model
1
named streets
12
named places
25
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 Q3776228). 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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