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About Ballinskelligs

Ballinskelligs, Baile an Sceilg in Irish, is a village in County Kerry, 124 km west of Cork. It stands on the R566. The map gives it 706 buildings and 10 named streets, with 19 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 118 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 25th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.

Where
124 km west of Cork, 320 km from Dublin
Position
51.8249° N, 10.2742° W
Roads
R566
Governed
Kerry County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
706 buildings, 10 streets, 19 named places in 23 kinds
County Kerry, Coom Tomb: view to north: pass down to St. Finian's bay
County Kerry, Coom Tomb: view to north: pass down to St. Finian's bay·Commander-pirx, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Photography School (32002341963)
Photography School (32002341963)·Robert French, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons

County Kerry 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.

293,880112,772156,45818412022

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 118 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R566 running through Ballinskelligs.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballinskelligs?
In County Kerry, in the province of Munster, 124 km west of Cork and 320 km from Dublin, on the R566.
How big is Ballinskelligs?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 706 buildings, 10 named streets and 19 named places, which by building count makes it the 25th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.
What is there to see in Ballinskelligs?
118 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Trá Bhaile an Sceilge, Trá an Ghleanntáin and Trá Bhaile an Sceilge.
How do you get to Ballinskelligs?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Kerry.
Has County Kerry grown or shrunk?
The census counted 293,880 people in the county in 1841 and 156,458 in 2022.
706
buildings on the model
10
named streets
19
named places
23
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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