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About Ballybrophy

Ballybrophy is a village in County Laois, 36 km north-west of Kilkenny. The map gives it 393 buildings and 1 named street, with 2 places named on them in 14 kinds, and 73 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 28th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Where
36 km north-west of Kilkenny, 103 km from Dublin
Position
52.8997° N, 7.6046° W
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
393 buildings, 1 street, 2 named places in 14 kinds
Ballybrophy Halt, near to Ballybrophy, Grange Beg and Green Cross Roads, Laois, Ireland. County Laois, where railways divide. (Yoooookay - I'm not a rail expert!)
Ballybrophy Halt, near to Ballybrophy, Grange Beg and Green Cross Roads, Laois, Ireland. County Laois, where railways divide. (Yoooookay - I'm not a rail expert!)·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Watertower at Ballybrophy station
Watertower at Ballybrophy station·Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Ballybrophy in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the twelfth century to 1636. That is not a history of Ballybrophy, 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 twelfth century1636Monaincha AbbeyCloncourse Castle (ruins)
The twelfth century
  • the twelfth centuryMonaincha AbbeyHistoric churches · 11 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fourteenth century
The seventeenth century

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 73 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 3 lines call at 2 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 Ballybrophy?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 36 km north-west of Kilkenny and 103 km from Dublin.
How big is Ballybrophy?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 393 buildings, 1 named street and 2 named places, which by building count makes it the 28th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Ballybrophy?
73 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Rath More, Donaghmore Famine Workhouse Museum and Donaghmore Moat.
How do you get to Ballybrophy?
3 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail and TFI Local Link Tipperary. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Laois grown or shrunk?
The census counted 153,930 people in the county in 1841 and 91,877 in 2022.
393
buildings on the model
1
named streets
2
named places
14
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 Q135310). 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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