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About Borris

Borris, An Bhuiríos in Irish, is a village in County Carlow, 23 km east of Kilkenny, with 652 people at the 2016 census. It stands on the R702, L3003 and L3006. The map gives it 901 buildings and 19 named streets, with 46 places named on them in 45 kinds, and 122 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 6th largest of the 25 settlements this site covers in County Carlow.

Population
652 at the 2016 census
Where
23 km east of Kilkenny, 94 km from Dublin
Position
52.5988° N, 6.9202° W, 53 m above sea level
Area
3.74 km²
Roads
R702, L3003 and L3006
Governed
Carlow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
901 buildings, 19 streets, 46 named places in 45 kinds
A view of Borris House Gate Lodge.
A view of Borris House Gate Lodge.·Blackstairs4, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 122 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R702, L3003 and L3006 running through Borris.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Borris Vocational School.

Questions people ask

Where is Borris?
In County Carlow, in the province of Leinster, 23 km east of Kilkenny and 94 km from Dublin, on the R702, L3003 and L3006.
How big is Borris?
652 people at the 2016 census. On the map it is 901 buildings and 19 named streets.
What is there to see in Borris?
122 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Flora & Fauna, The Columban Way and South Leinster Way.
How do you get to Borris?
2 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Carlow Kilkenny Wicklow.
Has County Carlow grown or shrunk?
The census counted 86,228 people in the county in 1841 and 61,968 in 2022.
901
buildings on the model
19
named streets
46
named places
45
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 Q2492145). 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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