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County Wicklow · Leinster

About Redcross

Redcross, An Chrois Dhearg in Irish, is a village in County Wicklow, 52 km south of Dublin. It stands on the R754. The map gives it 469 buildings and 4 named streets, with 10 places named on them in 26 kinds, and 58 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 23th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.

Where
52 km south of Dublin
Position
52.8901° N, 6.1451° W
Roads
R754
Governed
Wicklow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
469 buildings, 4 streets, 10 named places in 26 kinds
Giovanni's Take-away (1), Main Street, Redcross, Co. Wicklow
Giovanni's Take-away (1), Main Street, Redcross, Co. Wicklow·P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
River Valley Caravan Site, Redcross
River Valley Caravan Site, Redcross·Jo Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0 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 58 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R754 running through Redcross.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Redcross?
In County Wicklow, in the province of Leinster, 52 km south of Dublin and 52 km from Dublin, on the R754.
How big is Redcross?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 469 buildings, 4 named streets and 10 named places, which by building count makes it the 23th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.
What is there to see in Redcross?
58 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Cullen Memorial Park, St Patrick's Well and Kilmacrea Wood.
How do you get to Redcross?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the R754.
Has County Wicklow grown or shrunk?
The census counted 126,143 people in the county in 1841 and 155,851 in 2022.
469
buildings on the model
4
named streets
10
named places
26
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 Q2091077). 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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