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About Ballybunion

Ballybunion, Baile an Bhuinneánaigh in Irish, is a town in County Kerry, 72 km west of Limerick. It stands on the R551. The map gives it 3,554 buildings and 18 named streets, with 63 places named on them in 37 kinds, and 61 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 4th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.

Population
1,618, as the map records it
Where
72 km west of Limerick, 247 km from Dublin
Position
52.5112° N, 9.6701° W, 30 m above sea level
Roads
R551
Governed
Kerry County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
3,554 buildings, 18 streets, 63 named places in 37 kinds
Ballybunion Castle
Ballybunion Castle·Eugene gogs, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Shortiss Shop and Bar (6999282270)
Shortiss Shop and Bar (6999282270)·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, 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 61 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R551 running through Ballybunion.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: St. Joseph's Secondary School and Scoil Íosagáin Náisiúnta.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballybunion?
In County Kerry, in the province of Munster, 72 km west of Limerick and 247 km from Dublin, on the R551.
How big is Ballybunion?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 3,554 buildings, 18 named streets and 63 named places, which by building count makes it the 4th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.
What is there to see in Ballybunion?
61 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Toberreendooney, Ladies' Beach and Ballybunion Castle.
How do you get to Ballybunion?
3 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and 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.
3,554
buildings on the model
18
named streets
63
named places
37
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 Q805394). 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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