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County Wexford · Leinster

About Rosslare Harbour

Rosslare Harbour, Calafort Ros Láir in Irish, is a village in County Wexford, 53 km east of Waterford. It stands on the N25, L3059 and L3064. The map gives it 1,171 buildings and 28 named streets, with 51 places named on them in 43 kinds, and 100 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 13th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.

Population
2,247, as the map records it
Where
53 km east of Waterford, 122 km from Dublin
Position
52.2497° N, 6.3401° W, 20 m above sea level
Roads
N25, L3059 and L3064
Governed
Wexford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,171 buildings, 28 streets, 51 named places in 43 kinds
County Wexford, Rosslare Harbour Lighthouse.
County Wexford, Rosslare Harbour Lighthouse.·Rogue29567, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Rosslare Harbour - welcome board
Rosslare Harbour - welcome board·瑞丽江的河水, 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 100 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N25, L3059 and L3064 running through Rosslare Harbour. 14 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 4 lines call at 6 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 Rosslare Harbour?
In County Wexford, in the province of Leinster, 53 km east of Waterford and 122 km from Dublin, on the N25, L3059 and L3064.
How big is Rosslare Harbour?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,171 buildings, 28 named streets and 51 named places, which by building count makes it the 13th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.
What is there to see in Rosslare Harbour?
100 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Stella Maris Statue, Rosslare Europort and Wexford's Merchant Coast.
How do you get to Rosslare Harbour?
4 bus and train lines call at 6 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail and TFI Local Link Wexford. 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.
1,171
buildings on the model
28
named streets
51
named places
43
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 Q2167772). 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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