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About Ballitore

Ballitore, Béal Átha an Tuair in Irish, is a village in County Kildare, 49 km north-east of Kilkenny, with 445 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the R415. The map gives it 678 buildings and 3 named streets, with 8 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 83 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 31th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Population
445 at the 2006 census
Where
49 km north-east of Kilkenny, 53 km from Dublin
Position
53.0094° N, 6.8156° W
Roads
R415
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
678 buildings, 3 streets, 8 named places in 23 kinds
River Greese in County Kildare
River Greese in County Kildare·Sarah777, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Ss. Mary and Laurence Church, Crookstown, County Kildare
Ss. Mary and Laurence Church, Crookstown, County Kildare·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Ballitore in order

8 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1148 to 2016. That is not a history of Ballitore, 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.

11482016Baltinglass AbbeyErnest Shackleton
The twelfth century
  • 1148Baltinglass AbbeyHistoric churches · 10 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • 1179Moone AbbeyHistoric churches · 3.4 km from the centre
The thirteenth century
The sixteenth century
  • the sixteenth centuryWhite CastleCastles · 11 km from the centre
The eighteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first century

County Kildare 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.

247,77457,892114,48818412022

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 83 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R415 running through Ballitore.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 6 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: St. Laurence's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballitore?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 49 km north-east of Kilkenny and 53 km from Dublin, on the R415.
How big is Ballitore?
445 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 678 buildings and 3 named streets.
What is there to see in Ballitore?
83 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Crookanurn, The Long Stone and Mullamast Rath.
How do you get to Ballitore?
2 bus and train lines call at 6 stops here in the published timetable, run by JJ Kavanagh and TFI Local Link Kildare South Dublin.
Has County Kildare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 114,488 people in the county in 1841 and 247,774 in 2022.
678
buildings on the model
3
named streets
8
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 (item Q4076804). 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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