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County Wexford · Leinster

About Riverchapel

Riverchapel, Séipéal na hAbhann in Irish, is a village in County Wexford, 69 km east of Kilkenny. It stands on the R742. The map gives it 2,555 buildings and 56 named streets, with 25 places named on them in 29 kinds, and 63 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 5th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.

Where
69 km east of Kilkenny, 79 km from Dublin
Position
52.6372° N, 6.2343° W
Area
1.23 km²
Roads
R742
Governed
Wexford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
2,555 buildings, 56 streets, 25 named places in 29 kinds
The church of St. John the Evangelist in Ardamine, County Wexford.
The church of St. John the Evangelist in Ardamine, County Wexford.·Christopher Doyle from Horley, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Taravie Hotel in Courtown in December 2017.
The Taravie Hotel in Courtown in December 2017.·AmyEastwood, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 63 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R742 running through Riverchapel. 4 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 17 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Riverchapel?
In County Wexford, in the province of Leinster, 69 km east of Kilkenny and 79 km from Dublin, on the R742.
How big is Riverchapel?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,555 buildings, 56 named streets and 25 named places, which by building count makes it the 5th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.
What is there to see in Riverchapel?
63 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Courtown Amusement Centre, Maritime Monument and Courtown Woods Picnic Area.
How do you get to Riverchapel?
2 bus and train lines call at 17 stops here in the published timetable, run by Gorey Bus Links and 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.
2,555
buildings on the model
56
named streets
25
named places
29
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 Q4394363). 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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