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About Blessington

Blessington, Baile Coimín in Irish, is a town in County Wicklow, 27 km south-west of Dublin. It stands on the N81, R410 and R758. The map gives it 2,982 buildings and 86 named streets, with 167 places named on them in 92 kinds, and 109 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 6th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.

Where
27 km south-west of Dublin
Position
53.1726° N, 6.5331° W, 223 m above sea level
Roads
N81, R410, R758, L4365 and L83641
Governed
Wicklow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
2,982 buildings, 86 streets, 167 named places in 92 kinds
A view of Blessington Lakes.
A view of Blessington Lakes.·瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A view of St Mary’s Church.
A view of St Mary’s Church.·瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Blessington in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1350 to 2006. That is not a history of Blessington, 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.

13502006Oughterard ChurchGaelscoil na Lochanna
The fourteenth century
  • 1350Oughterard ChurchHistoric churches · 12 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The seventeenth century
  • the 1630sJigginstown HouseHistoric houses · 11 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The twenty-first century

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 109 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N81, R410, R758, L4365 and L83641 running through Blessington. 22 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

5 lines call at 39 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

7 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Blessington?
In County Wicklow, in the province of Leinster, 27 km south-west of Dublin and 27 km from Dublin, on the N81, R410 and R758.
How big is Blessington?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,982 buildings, 86 named streets and 167 named places, which by building count makes it the 6th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.
What is there to see in Blessington?
109 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Blessington Tourist Information, The Square Renewal and Duke of Downshire Monument.
How do you get to Blessington?
5 bus and train lines call at 39 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Carlow Kilkenny Wicklow.
Has County Wicklow grown or shrunk?
The census counted 126,143 people in the county in 1841 and 155,851 in 2022.
2,982
buildings on the model
86
named streets
167
named places
92
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 Q883912). 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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