Blessington
Blessington is a small town in County Wicklow, with a population in 2022 of about 5600. It's west of the Wicklow mountains and this part of the county is low-lying and rural.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rath Turtle Moat and St Mary’s Church.
Rath Turtle Moat
Archaeological site
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rath Turtle Moat is a ringwork and National Monument located in County Wicklow, Ireland.
St Mary’s Church
Church
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. Mary's Church is a Church of Ireland church located in Blessington, County Wicklow, Ireland. The church was built by Michael Boyle, Archbishop of Armagh in the 1670s and 1680s, and dedicated on 17 September 1683.
Blessington GAA
Sports venue
Blessington Gaelic Athletic Association is a Gaelic football, hurling, camogie and ladies' Gaelic football club based in Blessington, County Wicklow, Ireland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lacken and Kilbride.
Lacken
Hamlet
Lacken or Lackan is a townland and small village in the west of County Wicklow, Ireland, located on the shores of the Blessington lakes and western edge of the Wicklow Mountains. Lacken is situated 4½ km southeast of Blessington.
Kilbride
Village
Photo: Hamish Bain, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kilbride, or Manor Kilbride, is a village, civil parish and electoral division in County Wicklow, Ireland, located at the western edge of the Wicklow Mountains in the barony of Talbotstown Lower. Kilbride is situated 5 km northeast of Blessington.
Rathmore
Hamlet
Rathmore, a village, civil parish and District electoral division in County Kildare, Ireland, is located at the western edge of the Wicklow Mountains in the barony of Naas North. Rathmore is situated 5 km north of Blessington.
Blessington
- Type: Town with 5,520 residents
- Description: town in County Wicklow, Ireland
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: County Wicklow, Leinster, East Coast and Midlands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.1726° or 53° 10′ 21″ northLongitude
-6.5331° or 6° 31′ 59″ westPopulation
5,520Elevation
207 metres (679 feet)United Nations Location Code
IE BLEOpen location code
9C5M5FF8+2QOpenStreetMap ID
node 52243982OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Blessington” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Blessington”
- Bulgarian: “Блесингтън”
- Cebuano: “Blessington”
- Chinese: “布莱辛顿”
- Chinese: “布萊辛頓”
- Danish: “Blessington”
- Dutch: “Blessington”
- French: “Blessington”
- German: “Blessington”
- Hebrew: “בלסינגטון”
- Indonesian: “Baile Coimin”
- Indonesian: “Baile Coimín”
- Indonesian: “Blessington”
- Irish: “Baile Coimín”
- Italian: “Blessington”
- Japanese: “ブレッシントン”
- Lithuanian: “Bledingtonas”
- Persian: “بلسینگتون”
- Polish: “Blessington”
- Russian: “Блессингтон”
- Slovak: “Blessington”
- Spanish: “blessington”
- Spanish: “Blessington”
- Swedish: “Blessington”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Blessington”. Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.