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About Ballyheigue

Ballyheigue, Baile Uí Thaidhg in Irish, is a village in County Kerry, 87 km west of Limerick. The map gives it 1,267 buildings and 4 named streets, with 24 places named on them in 28 kinds, and 71 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 13th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.

Where
87 km west of Limerick, 263 km from Dublin
Position
52.3893° N, 9.8352° W
Area
45 km²
Governed
Kerry County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
1,267 buildings, 4 streets, 24 named places in 28 kinds
The Ballyheigue beach at low tide
The Ballyheigue beach at low tide·Rauenstein, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Ballyheigue beach at low tide
The Ballyheigue beach at low tide·Rauenstein, CC BY-SA 3.0 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 71 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Ballyheigue; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 3 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 Ballyheigue?
In County Kerry, in the province of Munster, 87 km west of Limerick and 263 km from Dublin.
How big is Ballyheigue?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,267 buildings, 4 named streets and 24 named places, which by building count makes it the 13th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.
What is there to see in Ballyheigue?
71 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ballyheigue Playground, Ballyheigue Castle and Toberlackan.
How do you get to Ballyheigue?
1 bus and train line calls at 3 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.
1,267
buildings on the model
4
named streets
24
named places
28
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 Q2370886). 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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