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About Ballinakill

Ballinakill, Baile na Coille in Irish, is a village in County Laois, 25 km north of Kilkenny. It stands on the R432, L1738 and L7797. The map gives it 682 buildings and 9 named streets, with 19 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 117 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 15th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Where
25 km north of Kilkenny, 88 km from Dublin
Position
52.8739° N, 7.3081° W
Roads
R432, L1738 and L7797
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
682 buildings, 9 streets, 19 named places in 23 kinds
Former Market House in Ballinakill
Former Market House in Ballinakill·A.-K. D., CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ballinakill Market House
Ballinakill Market House·A.-K. D., CC0 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 117 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R432, L1738 and L7797 running through Ballinakill.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 3 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Ballinakill National School and Heywood Community School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballinakill?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 25 km north of Kilkenny and 88 km from Dublin, on the R432, L1738 and L7797.
How big is Ballinakill?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 682 buildings, 9 named streets and 19 named places, which by building count makes it the 15th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Ballinakill?
117 things the map records in and around it, the closest being 1798 Monument, Ballinakill Castle and Bowling Well.
How do you get to Ballinakill?
2 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by Slieve Bloom Coach Tours and TFI Local Link Laois Offaly.
Has County Laois grown or shrunk?
The census counted 153,930 people in the county in 1841 and 91,877 in 2022.
682
buildings on the model
9
named streets
19
named places
23
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. 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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