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About Rosslare

Rosslare, Ros Láir in Irish, is a village in County Wexford, 49 km east of Waterford. It stands on the R740, L3049 and L3050. The map gives it 2,047 buildings and 47 named streets, with 48 places named on them in 53 kinds, and 156 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 6th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.

Population
1,795, as the map records it
Where
49 km east of Waterford, 120 km from Dublin
Position
52.2736° N, 6.3869° W
Roads
R740, L3049, L3050, L7100 and L7101
Governed
Wexford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
2,047 buildings, 47 streets, 48 named places in 53 kinds
Strand Races, Rosslare (23121423661)
Strand Races, Rosslare (23121423661)·Robert French, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
MV Normandy Rosslare Harbour August 1999 Flickr D464 Darren Hall
MV Normandy Rosslare Harbour August 1999 Flickr D464 Darren Hall·D464-Darren Hall, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Rosslare in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1169 to 1979. That is not a history of Rosslare, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

11691979Rathlannon CastleIrish Agricultural Museum
The twelfth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century

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 156 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R740, L3049, L3050, L7100 and L7101 running through Rosslare. 6 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 3 lines call at 20 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Rosslare?
In County Wexford, in the province of Leinster, 49 km east of Waterford and 120 km from Dublin, on the R740, L3049 and L3050.
How big is Rosslare?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,047 buildings, 47 named streets and 48 named places, which by building count makes it the 6th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.
What is there to see in Rosslare?
156 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Rosslare Community Information Hub, Birdlife of Rosslare and Marconi House.
How do you get to Rosslare?
3 bus and train lines call at 20 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.
2,047
buildings on the model
47
named streets
48
named places
53
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 Q581968). 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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