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About Ballyogan

Ballyogan, Baile Ui Ógain in Irish, is a village in County Dublin, 11 km south-east of Dublin. It stands on the M50, R113 and R117. The map gives it 3,442 buildings and 130 named streets, with 122 places named on them in 78 kinds, and 755 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 33th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Where
11 km south-east of Dublin
Position
53.2583° N, 6.1972° W
Roads
M50, R113, R117, R842, L2026, L3022 and L6034
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
3,442 buildings, 130 streets, 122 named places in 78 kinds
The Mountainview, Stepaside, County Dublin geograph.org.uk 1801580
The Mountainview, Stepaside, County Dublin geograph.org.uk 1801580·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Sandyford Hall Shops in Sandyford, Dublin 18
Sandyford Hall Shops in Sandyford, Dublin 18·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Ballyogan in order

48 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the 800s to 2019. That is not a history of Ballyogan, 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.

the 800s2019Book of KellsMuseum of Literature Ireland
The eighth century
  • the 800sBook of KellsAttractions · 10 km from the centre · Memory of the World International Register
The thirteenth century
The sixteenth century
The seventeenth century
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first 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 755 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M50, R113, R117, R842, L2026, L3022 and L6034 running through Ballyogan. 40 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 11 lines call at 77 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

5 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballyogan?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 11 km south-east of Dublin and 11 km from Dublin, on the M50, R113 and R117.
How big is Ballyogan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 3,442 buildings, 130 named streets and 122 named places, which by building count makes it the 33th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.
What is there to see in Ballyogan?
755 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Samuel Beckett Civic Campus, St Caoin cross and Glencairn.
How do you get to Ballyogan?
11 bus and train lines call at 77 stops here in the published timetable, run by Aircoach, Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus and Go-Ahead Ireland. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Dublin grown or shrunk?
The census counted 372,773 people in the county in 1841 and 1,458,154 in 2022.
3,442
buildings on the model
130
named streets
122
named places
78
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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