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About Bray

Bray, Bré in Irish, is a town in County Wicklow, 19 km south-east of Dublin. It stands on the N11, R117 and R761. The map gives it 11,397 buildings and 271 named streets, with 472 places named on them in 144 kinds, and 278 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.

Population
33,512, as the map records it
Where
19 km south-east of Dublin
Position
53.2015° N, 6.1105° W, 18 m above sea level
Area
7.55 km²
Roads
N11, R117, R761, R766, R767, R768, R918 and L1002
Governed
Wicklow County Council, in the province of Leinster
Twinned with
Würzburg, Germany, Dublin, United States, Bègles, France and Carrara, Italy
On the model
11,397 buildings, 271 streets, 472 named places in 144 kinds
A view of Bray Head.
A view of Bray Head.·瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 278 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N11, R117, R761, R766, R767, R768, R918 and L1002 running through Bray. 21 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 25 lines call at 141 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

18 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Bray?
In County Wicklow, in the province of Leinster, 19 km south-east of Dublin and 19 km from Dublin, on the N11, R117 and R761.
How big is Bray?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 11,397 buildings, 271 named streets and 472 named places, which by building count makes it the largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.
What is there to see in Bray?
278 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Bray Tourist Office, Christopher Thompson and Proclamation of the Irish Republic.
How do you get to Bray?
25 bus and train lines call at 141 stops here in the published timetable, run by BIFE Bus, Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann. 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.
11,397
buildings on the model
271
named streets
472
named places
144
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 Q652000). 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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