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About Roundwood

Roundwood, An Tóchar in Irish, is a village in County Wicklow, 32 km south of Dublin. It stands on the R755, R764 and R765. The map gives it 661 buildings and 19 named streets, with 35 places named on them in 42 kinds, and 135 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 19th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.

Where
32 km south of Dublin
Position
53.0635° N, 6.2247° W, 238 m above sea level
Roads
R755, R764, R765, L1059 and L1060
Governed
Wicklow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
661 buildings, 19 streets, 35 named places in 42 kinds
Roundwood, Church of St Laurence O'Toole.
Roundwood, Church of St Laurence O'Toole.·Jonjobaker, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Roundwood, Co. Wicklow (26483268809)
Roundwood, Co. Wicklow (26483268809)·Robert French, no restrictions 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 135 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R755, R764, R765, L1059 and L1060 running through Roundwood.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Saint Laurence's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Roundwood?
In County Wicklow, in the province of Leinster, 32 km south of Dublin and 32 km from Dublin, on the R755, R764 and R765.
How big is Roundwood?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 661 buildings, 19 named streets and 35 named places, which by building count makes it the 19th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.
What is there to see in Roundwood?
135 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Vartry Reservoir Lower, Campsite Playground and Vartry Reservoir Lower.
How do you get to Roundwood?
2 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by St. Kevin's Bus Service 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.
661
buildings on the model
19
named streets
35
named places
42
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 Q2096493). 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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