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About Ballyhea

Ballyhea, Bealach Átha in Irish, is a village in County Cork, 39 km south of Limerick. It stands on the L5534. The map gives it 117 buildings and 4 named streets, with 8 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 74 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 124th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.

Where
39 km south of Limerick, 199 km from Dublin
Position
52.3094° N, 8.6688° W
Roads
L5534
Governed
Cork County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
117 buildings, 4 streets, 8 named places in 21 kinds

Ballyhea in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1229 to 1884. That is not a history of Ballyhea, 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.

12291884Ballybeg AbbeyBallyhea GAA
The thirteenth century
The nineteenth century

County Cork 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.

854,118330,443584,15618412022

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 74 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L5534 running through Ballyhea.

By bus or train

2 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: Ballyhea National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballyhea?
In County Cork, in the province of Munster, 39 km south of Limerick and 199 km from Dublin, on the L5534.
How big is Ballyhea?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 117 buildings, 4 named streets and 8 named places, which by building count makes it the 124th largest of the 159 settlements this site covers in County Cork.
What is there to see in Ballyhea?
74 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lady's Well, Ballyhay Church and Cashlaunowen.
How do you get to Ballyhea?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Cork grown or shrunk?
The census counted 854,118 people in the county in 1841 and 584,156 in 2022.
117
buildings on the model
4
named streets
8
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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