About Ballyfoyle
Ballyfoyle, Baile Phóill in Irish, is a village in County Kilkenny, 8 km north of Kilkenny. The map gives it 482 buildings and 6 named streets, with 13 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 281 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 27th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.
- Where
- 8 km north of Kilkenny, 96 km from Dublin
- Position
- 52.7186° N, 7.2348° W
- Governed
- Kilkenny County Council, in the province of Leinster
- On the model
- 482 buildings, 6 streets, 13 named places in 20 kinds
Ballyfoyle in order
7 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the eleventh century to 1706. That is not a history of Ballyfoyle, 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.
- the eleventh centuryKilmalog ChurchHistoric churches · 8.1 km from the centre
- the 1230sSt. Francis AbbeyHistoric churches · 7.1 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
- the thirteenth centurySaint Mary's ChurchHistoric churches · 7.5 km from the centre
- the thirteenth centuryMedieval Mile MuseumMuseums · 7.5 km from the centre
- 1582Archer HouseHistoric houses · 7.6 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
- 1594Rothe HouseHistoric houses · 7.3 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
- 1706Smithwick's Brewery ExperienceAttractions · 7.3 km from the centre
County Kilkenny 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.
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.
- 450 m
- Kilmademoge Church Ruin850 mHistoric churches
- Ballyfoyle Castle970 mCastles
- Kilmademoge Castle (site of)1.0 kmRingforts and sites
- Ballyfoyle Moat1.2 kmRingforts and sites
- Killavoge Church site1.2 kmRingforts and sites
- Saint Andrew's Well1.4 kmHoly wells
- Kilmadum Church (ruins)1.6 kmHistoric churches
- Fish Pond1.7 kmLakes
- Dunmore Caves1.9 kmAttractions
- Long Wood1.9 kmWoods
- Mohil Ringfort2.1 kmRingforts and sites
Getting around
The map gives no numbered road inside Ballyfoyle; the roads it does record are local.
No stop here appears in the national timetable.
1 school or college on the map: Ballyfoyle National School.
Questions people ask
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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.