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About Ballycuddahy

Ballycuddahy is a village in County Laois, 33 km north-west of Kilkenny. It stands on the M7 and M8. The map gives it 283 buildings and 4 named streets, with 4 places named on them in 17 kinds, and 82 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 35th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Where
33 km north-west of Kilkenny, 95 km from Dublin
Position
52.9152° N, 7.4855° W
Roads
M7 and M8
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
283 buildings, 4 streets, 4 named places in 17 kinds
Aghaboe Abbey back
Aghaboe Abbey back·A.-K. D., CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Aghaboe, County Laois, near to Aghaboe, Kilcotton, Boherard, Corraun and Badgerisland, Laois, Ireland. Aghaboe Abbey, founded in 577.
Aghaboe, County Laois, near to Aghaboe, Kilcotton, Boherard, Corraun and Badgerisland, Laois, Ireland. Aghaboe Abbey, founded in 577.·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 82 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M7 and M8 running through Ballycuddahy.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballycuddahy?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 33 km north-west of Kilkenny and 95 km from Dublin, on the M7 and M8.
How big is Ballycuddahy?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 283 buildings, 4 named streets and 4 named places, which by building count makes it the 35th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Ballycuddahy?
82 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Coady's Hill, Gortnaclea Castle (ruins) and Gortnaclea Wood.
How do you get to Ballycuddahy?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the M7 and M8.
Has County Laois grown or shrunk?
The census counted 153,930 people in the county in 1841 and 91,877 in 2022.
283
buildings on the model
4
named streets
4
named places
17
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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