About Ballyhale
Ballyhale, Baile Héil in Irish, is a village in County Kilkenny, 21 km south of Kilkenny. It stands on the R448. The map gives it 490 buildings and 4 named streets, with 18 places named on them in 30 kinds, and 236 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 26th largest of the 42 settlements this site covers in County Kilkenny.
- Where
- 21 km south of Kilkenny, 117 km from Dublin
- Position
- 52.4677° N, 7.2008° W
- Roads
- R448
- Governed
- Kilkenny County Council, in the province of Leinster
- On the model
- 490 buildings, 4 streets, 18 named places in 30 kinds
Ballyhale in order
3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1180 to 1863. That is not a history of Ballyhale, 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.
- 1180Jerpoint AbbeyAbbeys · 5.6 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
- 1193Kells Augustinian PrioryRingforts and sites · 9.1 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
- 1863Holy Cross WellHoly wells · 11 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.
- Ballyhale Castle70 mCastles
- Páirc na Seamróga220 mParks
- Derrynahinch Church Ruin1.1 kmHistoric churches
- Kilcurl Castle1.5 kmCastles
- Ogham stone1.7 kmWaymarks and guideposts
- Knocktopher Ringfort (rath)1.8 kmRingforts and sites
- Kilcurl Church Ruin1.9 kmRingforts and sites
- 2.0 km
- Trinity Well2.0 kmHoly wells
- Ballyboodan Ringfort2.5 kmRingforts and sites
- Castlebanny2.8 kmRingforts and sites
- Castlecolumb Tower House3.1 kmCastles
Getting around
The map records the R448 running through Ballyhale.
2 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.
1 school or college on the map: Ballyhale National School.
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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 (item Q2084279). 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.