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About Ballybrittas Old

Ballybrittas Old is a village in County Laois, 52 km north of Kilkenny. The map gives it 190 buildings and 0 named streets, with 5 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 126 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 36th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Where
52 km north of Kilkenny, 65 km from Dublin
Position
53.1166° N, 7.1531° W
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
190 buildings, 0 streets, 5 named places in 19 kinds
Near Ballybrittas, County Laois
Near Ballybrittas, County Laois·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Eastbound M7 near Ballybrittas
Eastbound M7 near Ballybrittas·David Dixon, 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 126 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

3 lines call at 6 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballybrittas Old?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 52 km north of Kilkenny and 65 km from Dublin.
How big is Ballybrittas Old?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 190 buildings, 0 named streets and 5 named places, which by building count makes it the 36th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Ballybrittas Old?
126 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Garryvacum Hill, Springfield Clump and Sandy Hill.
How do you get to Ballybrittas Old?
3 bus and train lines call at 6 stops here in the published timetable, run by Dublin Coach and 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.
190
buildings on the model
0
named streets
5
named places
19
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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