About Glendalough
Glendalough, Gleann Dá Loch in Irish, is a village in County Wicklow, 38 km south of Dublin. The map gives it 87 buildings and 3 named streets, with 37 places named on them in 31 kinds, and 158 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 45th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.
- Where
- 38 km south of Dublin
- Position
- 53.0113° N, 6.3261° W
- Governed
- Wicklow County Council, in the province of Leinster
- On the model
- 87 buildings, 3 streets, 37 named places in 31 kinds
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.
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.
- Gateway20 mRuins
- Glendalough100 mAbbeys
- Glendalough Cathedral110 mCathedrals
- Saint Kevin's Cross130 mHigh crosses
- Priests' House140 mHistoric churches
- Glendalough Visitor Centre160 mMuseums
- St Kieran's Church170 mHistoric churches
- The Deer Stone220 mRingforts and sites
- St. Mary's220 mHistoric churches
- Glendalough Monastic240 mViewpoints
- Trinity Church410 mHistoric churches
- Lower Lake540 mLakes
Getting around
The map gives no numbered road inside Glendalough; the roads it does record are local. 4 car parks on the map.
3 lines call at 5 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.
The map records no school inside the settlement.
Questions people ask
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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.