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About Ballylynan

Ballylynan, Baile Uí Laigheanáin in Irish, is a village in County Laois, 35 km north-east of Kilkenny. It stands on the N78 and L7971. The map gives it 966 buildings and 15 named streets, with 16 places named on them in 26 kinds, and 101 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 9th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Where
35 km north-east of Kilkenny, 69 km from Dublin
Position
52.9436° N, 7.0422° W
Roads
N78 and L7971
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
966 buildings, 15 streets, 16 named places in 26 kinds
Ballylinan The Village Inn
Ballylinan The Village Inn·Robin Pollard, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ballylinan Fleming's Pub
Ballylinan Fleming's Pub·Robin Pollard, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Ballylynan in order

7 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the twelfth century to 2016. That is not a history of Ballylynan, 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 century2016Round Tower (site of)Ernest Shackleton
The twelfth century
The thirteenth century
The sixteenth century
  • the sixteenth centuryWhite CastleCastles · 6.7 km from the centre
The eighteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first 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 101 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N78 and L7971 running through Ballylynan. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Saint Patrick's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballylynan?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 35 km north-east of Kilkenny and 69 km from Dublin, on the N78 and L7971.
How big is Ballylynan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 966 buildings, 15 named streets and 16 named places, which by building count makes it the 9th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Ballylynan?
101 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ballylynan Community Playground, Wynne Park and Ballylynan Windmill (ruins).
How do you get to Ballylynan?
3 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by JJ Kavanagh and TFI Local Link Carlow Kilkenny Wicklow.
Has County Laois grown or shrunk?
The census counted 153,930 people in the county in 1841 and 91,877 in 2022.
966
buildings on the model
15
named streets
16
named places
26
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 Q2083732). 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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