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About Ballyboughal

Ballyboughal, Baile Bachaill in Irish, is a village in County Dublin, 19 km north of Dublin. It stands on the R108. The map gives it 970 buildings and 20 named streets, with 16 places named on them in 34 kinds, and 174 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 45th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Where
19 km north of Dublin
Position
53.5205° N, 6.2675° W, 35 m above sea level
Roads
R108
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
970 buildings, 20 streets, 16 named places in 34 kinds
Ballyboghil (Ballyboughal) River at Ballyboghil
Ballyboghil (Ballyboughal) River at Ballyboghil·jwd, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Medieval Church at Ballyboughal, Co. Dublin
Medieval Church at Ballyboughal, Co. Dublin·Kieran Campbell, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Ballyboughal in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 2750 BC to 2020. That is not a history of Ballyboughal, 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.

2750 BC2020Fourknocks Megalithic Passage TombCasino Model Railway Museum
The twelfth century
  • 1200Swords CastleCastles · 7.5 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fifteenth century
  • the fifteenth centuryBaldongan ChurchRuins · 9.9 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The twenty-first century
The 28th century

County Dublin 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.

1,458,154372,77318412022

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 174 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R108 running through Ballyboughal.

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: Ballyboughal National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballyboughal?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 19 km north of Dublin and 19 km from Dublin, on the R108.
How big is Ballyboughal?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 970 buildings, 20 named streets and 16 named places, which by building count makes it the 45th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.
What is there to see in Ballyboughal?
174 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Westpalstown Ruined Church, St. Bridget's Well and Lady Well.
How do you get to Ballyboughal?
2 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Louth Meath Fingal.
Has County Dublin grown or shrunk?
The census counted 372,773 people in the county in 1841 and 1,458,154 in 2022.
970
buildings on the model
20
named streets
16
named places
34
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 Q4076731). 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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