About Ballintubbert
Ballintubbert is a village in County Laois, 39 km north of Kilkenny. The map gives it 359 buildings and 0 named streets, with 10 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 96 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 30th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
- Where
- 39 km north of Kilkenny, 68 km from Dublin
- Position
- 52.9835° N, 7.0859° W
- Governed
- Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
- On the model
- 359 buildings, 0 streets, 10 named places in 19 kinds
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Ballintubbert in order
5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the thirteenth century to 2016. That is not a history of Ballintubbert, 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 thirteenth centuryWoodstock CastleRuins · 6.6 km from the centre
- the sixteenth centuryWhite CastleCastles · 6.9 km from the centre
- 1780Kilmorony House (ruins)Ruins · 9.0 km from the centre
- 1944Stephen Cullinane (Macra na Feirme)Monuments · 6.9 km from the centre
- 2016Ernest ShackletonMonuments · 6.9 km from the centre
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.
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.
- 90 m
- The Canal120 mLakes
- St. Bridget's Well130 mHoly wells
- Cecil Day Lewis190 mMonuments
- Kellyville Lake1.3 kmLakes
- Cobbler's Castle Walk; Car Park1.9 kmWaymarks and guideposts
- Tullamoy Castle (ruins)2.2 kmCastles
- Kilmackeady Church (ruins)2.5 kmHistoric churches
- Toberneeve2.5 kmHoly wells
- Tobernasool2.5 kmHoly wells
- Ballyadams Castle2.5 kmCastles
- Hairyhead Wood2.7 kmWoods
Getting around
The map gives no numbered road inside Ballintubbert; the roads it does record are local. 2 car parks on the map.
No stop here appears in the national timetable.
1 school or college on the map: Saint Joseph's 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. 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.