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About Rathnure

Rathnure, Ráth an Iúir in Irish, is a village in County Wexford, 35 km north-east of Waterford. It stands on the R731. The map gives it 410 buildings and 4 named streets, with 3 places named on them in 12 kinds, and 64 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 75th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.

Where
35 km north-east of Waterford, 100 km from Dublin
Position
52.4998° N, 6.7686° W, 60 m above sea level
Roads
R731
Governed
Wexford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
410 buildings, 4 streets, 3 named places in 12 kinds
Coolbawn House (1)
Coolbawn House (1)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Coolbawn House (2)
Coolbawn House (2)·Mike Searle, 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 64 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R731 running through Rathnure.

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: Rathnure National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Rathnure?
In County Wexford, in the province of Leinster, 35 km north-east of Waterford and 100 km from Dublin, on the R731.
How big is Rathnure?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 410 buildings, 4 named streets and 3 named places, which by building count makes it the 75th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.
What is there to see in Rathnure?
64 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Coolbaun House, St. Anne's Well and 1798 Memorial.
How do you get to Rathnure?
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.
410
buildings on the model
4
named streets
3
named places
12
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 Q3776265). 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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