Villierstown
Villierstown is a village in west County Waterford, Ireland. It is situated on the banks of the River Blackwater, and was founded in the 1740s by a local landlord, John Villiers, as a base for the linen industry, and initially populated primarily from Lurgan.Places of Interest
Highlights: Church of the Assumption and Strancally Castle.
Church of the Assumption
Church
Strancally Castle
Residential building
Strancally Castle is a castellated country house in County Waterford, Ireland. Strancally Castle is situated 3 km southwest of Villierstown.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aglish and Knockanore.
Aglish
Village
Knockanore
Hamlet
Knockanore is a rural village and townland… Knockanore is situated 5 km southwest of Villierstown.
Cappoquin
Town
Villierstown
- Type: Village with 279 residents
- Description: village in Munster, Ireland
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: County Waterford, Munster, Southeast Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.08886° or 52° 5′ 20″ north
Longitude
-7.85158° or 7° 51′ 6″ west
Population
279
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
Open location code
9C4J34QX+G9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Villierstown” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Villierstown”
- Cebuano: “Villierstown”
- Dutch: “Villierstown”
- Irish: “An Baile Nua, Contae Phort Láirge”
- Irish: “An Baile Nua”
- Japanese: “ヴィリアスタウン”
- Russian: “Виллиерстаун”
- Spanish: “Villierstown”
- Swedish: “Villierstown”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Villierstown Quay and Dromore Quay.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Villierstown Church and Villierstown Community Development CLG.
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Worth a closer look: Waterford and Tramore.
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