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About Whitechurch

Whitechurch is a village in County Wexford, 12 km north-east of Waterford. The map gives it 417 buildings and 1 named street, with 13 places named on them in 25 kinds, and 187 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 72th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.

Where
12 km north-east of Waterford, 124 km from Dublin
Position
52.3207° N, 6.9614° W
Governed
Wexford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
417 buildings, 1 street, 13 named places in 25 kinds
Castles of Leinster: Ballyfarnoge, Wexford (1)
Castles of Leinster: Ballyfarnoge, Wexford (1)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Leinster: Ballyfarnoge, Wexford (2)
Castles of Leinster: Ballyfarnoge, Wexford (2)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Whitechurch in order

6 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the thirteenth century to 1982. That is not a history of Whitechurch, 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.

the thirteenth century1982Dunbrody AbbeyMedieval Museum
The thirteenth century
  • the thirteenth centuryDunbrody AbbeyAbbeys · 4.2 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • the thirteenth centuryReginald's TowerCastles · 12 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The eighteenth 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 187 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Whitechurch; the roads it does record are local. 6 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Mhuire Horeswood National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Whitechurch?
In County Wexford, in the province of Leinster, 12 km north-east of Waterford and 124 km from Dublin.
How big is Whitechurch?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 417 buildings, 1 named street and 13 named places, which by building count makes it the 72th largest of the 106 settlements this site covers in County Wexford.
What is there to see in Whitechurch?
187 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Picnic Area, Hay Meadows at the John F. Kennedy Arboretum and Arboretum Map.
How do you get to Whitechurch?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Wexford grown or shrunk?
The census counted 202,033 people in the county in 1841 and 163,919 in 2022.
417
buildings on the model
1
named streets
13
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. 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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