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About Ballyroe

Ballyroe, Baile an Róigh in Irish, is a village in County Kildare, 41 km north-east of Kilkenny. The map gives it 380 buildings and 3 named streets, with 3 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 81 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 47th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.

Where
41 km north-east of Kilkenny, 62 km from Dublin
Position
52.9613° N, 6.9339° W
Governed
Kildare County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
380 buildings, 3 streets, 3 named places in 20 kinds
Fenton Bridge
Fenton Bridge·A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Fenton Bridge
Fenton Bridge·A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Ballyroe in order

8 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1179 to 2016. That is not a history of Ballyroe, 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.

11792016Moone AbbeyErnest Shackleton
The twelfth century
  • 1179Moone AbbeyHistoric churches · 7.6 km from the centre
The thirteenth century
The sixteenth century
  • the sixteenth centuryWhite CastleCastles · 4.8 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 81 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Naomh Treasa.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballyroe?
In County Kildare, in the province of Leinster, 41 km north-east of Kilkenny and 62 km from Dublin.
How big is Ballyroe?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 380 buildings, 3 named streets and 3 named places, which by building count makes it the 47th largest of the 54 settlements this site covers in County Kildare.
What is there to see in Ballyroe?
81 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Kilmorony House (ruins), St Thomas' Well and Tankardstown Church.
How do you get to Ballyroe?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Kildare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 114,488 people in the county in 1841 and 247,774 in 2022.
380
buildings on the model
3
named streets
3
named places
20
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 Q4076792). 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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