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About Ballon

Ballon, Ballán in Irish, is a village in County Carlow, 34 km east of Kilkenny. It stands on the N80 and N81. The map gives it 754 buildings and 6 named streets, with 12 places named on them in 26 kinds, and 78 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 8th largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.

Where
34 km east of Kilkenny, 76 km from Dublin
Position
52.7392° N, 6.7694° W, 103 m above sea level
Roads
N80 and N81
Governed
Carlow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
754 buildings, 6 streets, 12 named places in 26 kinds
Ballykealy House, Ballykealy, Co. Carlow (2)
Ballykealy House, Ballykealy, Co. Carlow (2)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ballykealy House, Ballykealy, Co. Carlow (1)
Ballykealy House, Ballykealy, Co. Carlow (1)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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 78 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N80 and N81 running through Ballon.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Ballon?
In County Carlow, in the province of Leinster, 34 km east of Kilkenny and 76 km from Dublin, on the N80 and N81.
How big is Ballon?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 754 buildings, 6 named streets and 12 named places, which by building count makes it the 8th largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.
What is there to see in Ballon?
78 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ballon Hill, Castlegrace Moat and Pollroe.
How do you get to Ballon?
3 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, TFI Local Link Wexford and Wexford Bus.
Has County Carlow grown or shrunk?
The census counted 86,228 people in the county in 1841 and 61,968 in 2022.
754
buildings on the model
6
named streets
12
named places
26
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 Q2277458). 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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