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About Ballyheelan

Ballyheelan is a village in County Cavan, 90 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the R194, L2529 and L25292. The map gives it 471 buildings and 12 named streets, with 13 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 177 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 34th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.

Where
90 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.8365° N, 7.3517° W
Roads
R194, L2529, L25292, L2530 and L2531
Governed
Cavan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
471 buildings, 12 streets, 13 named places in 21 kinds

County Cavan 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.

243,15852,61881,70418412022

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 177 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R194, L2529, L25292, L2530 and L2531 running through Ballyheelan.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Ballyheelan?
In County Cavan, in the province of Ulster, 90 km north-west of Dublin and 90 km from Dublin, on the R194, L2529 and L25292.
How big is Ballyheelan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 471 buildings, 12 named streets and 13 named places, which by building count makes it the 34th largest of the 39 settlements this site covers in County Cavan.
What is there to see in Ballyheelan?
177 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Aghakilmore Lower, Aghakilmore Lower and Tawlaght.
How do you get to Ballyheelan?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the R194 and L2529.
Has County Cavan grown or shrunk?
The census counted 243,158 people in the county in 1841 and 81,704 in 2022.
471
buildings on the model
12
named streets
13
named places
21
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. 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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