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About Ballacolla

Ballacolla is a village in County Laois, 29 km north-west of Kilkenny. The map gives it 425 buildings and 1 named street, with 9 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 115 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 27th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Where
29 km north-west of Kilkenny, 95 km from Dublin
Position
52.8826° N, 7.4468° W
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
425 buildings, 1 street, 9 named places in 20 kinds
Castles of Leinster: Ballygeehin, Laois
Castles of Leinster: Ballygeehin, Laois·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ballycolla, County laois, near to Ballycolla and Gully Bridge, Laois, Ireland. Coach O'Leary pub.
Ballycolla, County laois, near to Ballycolla and Gully Bridge, Laois, Ireland. Coach O'Leary pub.·sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Laois 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.

153,93044,59591,87718412022

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 115 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Ballacolla National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballacolla?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 29 km north-west of Kilkenny and 95 km from Dublin.
How big is Ballacolla?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 425 buildings, 1 named street and 9 named places, which by building count makes it the 27th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Ballacolla?
115 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Kyle-cruttia, Ballygeehin Castle ruins and Eglish Church (ruins).
How do you get to Ballacolla?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Slieve Bloom Coach Tours.
Has County Laois grown or shrunk?
The census counted 153,930 people in the county in 1841 and 91,877 in 2022.
425
buildings on the model
1
named streets
9
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 Q4076759). 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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