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County Laois

Mass Lough

Mass Lough covers 2 ha with 760 m of shore in County Laois, 680 m south-west of Ballinakill.

Getting to the water

A public road or path on the map comes within 10 m of the shore, along about 200 m of it. That is what the map contains. It is not a statement that the public may walk there, because OpenStreetMap does not record permission, and nobody has checked this lake against its owner.

2 ha
of water
760 m
of shore
1
stretch of shore a way reaches
Area
2 ha measured from the mapped outline
Shore
760 m around the outline
County
County Laois
Public access
A public way reaches the shoreMeasured from the map, not from a statement of permission
On the map
OpenStreetMap record

No openly licensed photograph of Mass Lough was found. Rather than show a picture of somewhere else, this page shows none.

Where it is

The pin sits from the main access point on the shore, and every distance on this page is measured from that same point. The other pins are the nearest lakes in County Laois.

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Parking, viewpoints and stops

Everything here is measured from the main access point on the shore. A viewpoint is a place that looks at the lake, which is not the same as a place on it.

Parking

An unnamed car park is 660 m away, and the walk from it to the shore is 1.2 km along mapped paths. The map records nothing about a charge.

Viewpoints

None mapped within 2.5 km.

Nearest stops
  • Ballinakill Old Credit Union690 m
  • Heywood Gardens Entrance Gate1.5 km

Getting to Mass Lough

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How journey planning works
Destination, access and nearby stops

Mass Lough is in Ballinakill, County Laois. Routes here end at the stretch of shore a public way reaches, which this site measured on the ground. A car park is recorded 1223 m from the water, about 15 minutes on foot.

Ballinakill is the nearest settlement, 680 m south-west of the lake. Arriving in Ballinakill is not arriving at the water, so the journeys below are worked out to the water and say so when they cannot reach it.
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Stops near it

The nearest scheduled stop is Ballinakill (12304), 670 m away in a straight line. Use the planner to check walking connections for your journey.

  • Ballinakill 670 m
    buses 822 and 831
    Scheduled departures from this stop
  • Heywood Gardens 1.5 km
    bus 822
    Scheduled departures from this stop

Getting to Ballinakill covers the journeys into the town itself.

The nearest other lakes

Ordered by distance from the main access point on the shore, in a straight line, which is the same point and the same measure as the figures beside them.

Questions people ask

Can you walk to Mass Lough?
A public road or path comes within 10 m of the shore, along about 200 m of it. That is what the map shows; it is not a statement of permission, which the map does not record.
How big is Mass Lough?
2 ha, with 760 m of shore, measured from the outline OpenStreetMap holds, which is made of 2 records merged into one lake here.
Where can you park for Mass Lough?
A car park is 660 m away, and the walk from it to the shore is 1.2 km along mapped paths.
How do you get to Mass Lough without a car?
The nearest stop in the national timetable is Ballinakill, 670 m from the main access point on the shore in a straight line, and buses 822 and 831 call there, run by TFI Local Link Laois Offaly and Slieve Bloom Coach Tours. The planner on this page works out the walk from that stop, and where no footway joins it to the water it says so rather than making a number up.

Where this comes from

The lake itself
The outline, the name and the identifiers are OpenStreetMap records, 2 of them merged here into one lake. Correct it there
What this site measured
The area and the shore are worked out from that outline. The stretches of shore a way reaches, the walk in from a car park and every distance on this page are worked out here, on this site’s own graph of the OpenStreetMap ways, last built on 2026-09-20. These are this site’s calculations, not the map’s, and a mistake in them is a mistake here.