Castletown
Castletown, historically called Ballycaslane, is a small village and townland in northeast County Wexford, Ireland. It has a small national school and a Catholic church.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,200 residents
- Description: town in County Wexford, Ireland
- Also known as: “Ballycaslane” and “Castletown, County Wexford”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tara Hill and Inch Church.
Tara Hill
Peak
Photo: Sarah777, Public domain.
Tara Hill is an isolated hill and associated village near the Irish Sea coast in north County Wexford, Ireland. Though only 253 metres high, it dominates the landscape of northeast Wexford. Tara Hill is situated 3 km southwest of Castletown.
Inch Church
Church
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Inch Church is situated 3½ km northwest of Castletown.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Inch and Scarnagh.
Inch
Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Inch is located in County Wexford, Ireland on the R772 road between Arklow and Gorey. In September 2007 Inch was bypassed, having formerly been on the N11 Dublin to Wexford road. Inch is situated 4 km northwest of Castletown.
Scarnagh
Locality
Scarnagh Cross or Scarnagh is a small hamlet in north County Wexford in Ireland. It is located four miles from the sea, on the R772 regional road between Gorey and Arklow. Scarnagh is situated 4 km north of Castletown.
Coolgreany
Village
Coolgreany is a village located in north County Wexford in Ireland, in the shadow of Croghan Mountain, overlooking Tara Hill in the extreme north of County Wexford. Coolgreany is situated 6 km northwest of Castletown.
Castletown
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: County Wexford, Leinster, Southeast Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.72244° or 52° 43′ 21″ northLongitude
-6.18907° or 6° 11′ 21″ westPopulation
1,200Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)Open location code
9C4MPRC6+X9OpenStreetMap ID
node 52253896OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3226389Wikidata ID
Q4216664
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Castletown” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Castletown (Wexford konderria)”
- Basque: “Castletown”
- Cebuano: “Castletown”
- Dutch: “Castletown, County Wexford”
- Irish: “Baile an Chaisleáin, Contae Loch Garman”
- Irish: “Baile an Chaisleáin”
- Russian: “Каслтаун”
- Swedish: “Castletown, Wexford”
- Swedish: “Castletown”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Castletown”. Photo: Bob Embleton, CC BY-SA 2.0.