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About Hollywood

Hollywood, Cillín Chaoimhín in Irish, is a village in County Wicklow, 36 km south-west of Dublin. It stands on the R756. The map gives it 269 buildings and 5 named streets, with 12 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 101 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 35th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.

Where
36 km south-west of Dublin
Position
53.0920° N, 6.5976° W, 186 m above sea level
Roads
R756
Governed
Wicklow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
269 buildings, 5 streets, 12 named places in 19 kinds
WLE IRL 2025; Hollywood, County Wicklow; Saint Kevin churches in Ireland; June 2025 Republic of Ireland photographs (03)
WLE IRL 2025; Hollywood, County Wicklow; Saint Kevin churches in Ireland; June 2025 Republic of Ireland photographs (03)·Qwertzu111111, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
At the carpark at the base of Church Mountain
At the carpark at the base of Church Mountain·Ridiculopathy, CC0 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.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 101 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R756 running through Hollywood. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

1 line calls 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: Hollywood National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Hollywood?
In County Wicklow, in the province of Leinster, 36 km south-west of Dublin and 36 km from Dublin, on the R756.
How big is Hollywood?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 269 buildings, 5 named streets and 12 named places, which by building count makes it the 35th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.
What is there to see in Hollywood?
101 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Castle Rock, Saint Kevin's Cave and Hollywood Sign.
How do you get to Hollywood?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Wicklow grown or shrunk?
The census counted 126,143 people in the county in 1841 and 155,851 in 2022.
269
buildings on the model
5
named streets
12
named places
19
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 Q2567546). 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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