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About Carnew

Carnew, Carn an Bhua in Irish, is a village in County Wicklow, 51 km east of Kilkenny. It stands on the R725. The map gives it 805 buildings and 25 named streets, with 5 places named on them in 14 kinds, and 49 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 17th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.

Where
51 km east of Kilkenny, 73 km from Dublin
Position
52.7096° N, 6.4963° W, 105 m above sea level
Roads
R725
Governed
Wicklow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
805 buildings, 25 streets, 5 named places in 14 kinds
Castles of Leinster: Carnew, Wicklow
Castles of Leinster: Carnew, Wicklow·Garry Dickinson, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Mainstreet of Carnew, County Wicklow
Mainstreet of Carnew, County Wicklow·Ticketautomat (talk), CC BY-SA 2.5 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 49 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R725 running through Carnew.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Colaiste Bhride.

Questions people ask

Where is Carnew?
In County Wicklow, in the province of Leinster, 51 km east of Kilkenny and 73 km from Dublin, on the R725.
How big is Carnew?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 805 buildings, 25 named streets and 5 named places, which by building count makes it the 17th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.
What is there to see in Carnew?
49 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Blue School, Ballyknocker Wood and Balisland.
How do you get to Carnew?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by 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.
805
buildings on the model
25
named streets
5
named places
14
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 Q2091085). 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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