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Wicklow
County Wicklow · Leinster

About Arklow

Arklow, An tInbhear Mór in Irish, is a town in County Wicklow, 62 km south of Dublin. It stands on the M11, R747 and R750. The map gives it 7,511 buildings and 151 named streets, with 233 places named on them in 90 kinds, and 54 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the second largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.

Population
13,399, as the map records it
Where
62 km south of Dublin
Position
52.7982° N, 6.1540° W, 20 m above sea level
Roads
M11, R747, R750, R772, L2172, L2180, L2190 and L2191
Governed
Wicklow County Council, in the province of Leinster
Twinned with
Châteaudun, France
On the model
7,511 buildings, 151 streets, 233 named places in 90 kinds
Lower Main Street [1]
Lower Main Street [1]·Michael Dibb, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Lower Main Street [2]
Lower Main Street [2]·Michael Dibb, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Wicklow 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.

155,85157,591126,14318412022

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 54 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M11, R747, R750, R772, L2172, L2180, L2190 and L2191 running through Arklow. 7 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 9 lines call at 16 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

10 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Arklow?
In County Wicklow, in the province of Leinster, 62 km south of Dublin and 62 km from Dublin, on the M11, R747 and R750.
How big is Arklow?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 7,511 buildings, 151 named streets and 233 named places, which by building count makes it the 2th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.
What is there to see in Arklow?
54 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Abbey Graveyard, Saint Mary's Park and South Green Playground.
How do you get to Arklow?
9 bus and train lines call at 16 stops here in the published timetable, run by BIFE Bus, Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Wicklow grown or shrunk?
The census counted 126,143 people in the county in 1841 and 155,851 in 2022.
7,511
buildings on the model
151
named streets
233
named places
90
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 Q673662). 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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