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About Ballinabrannagh

Ballinabrannagh, Baile na mBreatnach in Irish, is a village in County Carlow, 24 km north-east of Kilkenny. The map gives it 741 buildings and 3 named streets, with 8 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 80 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 9th largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.

Where
24 km north-east of Kilkenny, 79 km from Dublin
Position
52.7853° N, 6.9825° W
Governed
Carlow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
741 buildings, 3 streets, 8 named places in 19 kinds
Path to St Brigid's ruined church
Path to St Brigid's ruined church·Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Hay Bales in south of Carlow town, Co. Carlow
Hay Bales in south of Carlow town, Co. Carlow·Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Ballinabrannagh in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the twelfth century to 1973. That is not a history of Ballinabrannagh, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

the twelfth century1973Round Tower (site of)Carlow County Museum
The twelfth century
The thirteenth century
  • the 1210sCarlow CastleCastles · 6.5 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland, national monument of Ireland
The twentieth century

County Carlow 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.

86,22833,34261,96818412022

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 80 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Ballinabrannagh; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Ballinabranna National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballinabrannagh?
In County Carlow, in the province of Leinster, 24 km north-east of Kilkenny and 79 km from Dublin.
How big is Ballinabrannagh?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 741 buildings, 3 named streets and 8 named places, which by building count makes it the 9th largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.
What is there to see in Ballinabrannagh?
80 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Milford Lock, Killeeshal Fort and St. Bridget's Well.
How do you get to Ballinabrannagh?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Carlow grown or shrunk?
The census counted 86,228 people in the county in 1841 and 61,968 in 2022.
741
buildings on the model
3
named streets
8
named places
19
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 Q26717420). 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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