Irvington is a home rule-class city[2] in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, in the United States.

[4] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.89 square miles (2.3 km2), all land.

Jolly and Edgar L. Bennett, anticipating the route of the Louisville, St. Louis, and Texas Railroad, purchased 315 acres (127 ha) of farmland at the site and then, with the help of the railroad's employees, platted a new community over the 1888–89 winter.

This was named for Irvington, New York, the hometown of the railroad's chief engineer, Eugene Cornwall.

[7] In 1933, Holy Guardian Angel Roman Catholic church was moved from nearby Mount Merino to High Street.

The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.