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About Ballyroan

Ballyroan, Baile Átha an Róine in Irish, is a village in County Laois, 33 km north of Kilkenny. The map gives it 622 buildings and 4 named streets, with 12 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 112 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 16th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Where
33 km north of Kilkenny, 83 km from Dublin
Position
52.9481° N, 7.3052° W
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
622 buildings, 4 streets, 12 named places in 23 kinds
Ballyroan, County Laois
Ballyroan, County Laois·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Main Street (R425 regional road) in Ballyroan, County Laois, Ireland.
Main Street (R425 regional road) in Ballyroan, County Laois, Ireland.·Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, public domain 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 112 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Eoin Phóil II Naofa.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballyroan?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 33 km north of Kilkenny and 83 km from Dublin.
How big is Ballyroan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 622 buildings, 4 named streets and 12 named places, which by building count makes it the 16th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Ballyroan?
112 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Concrete Plantation, Concrete Plantation and Pigeon House Pond.
How do you get to Ballyroan?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by 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.
622
buildings on the model
4
named streets
12
named places
23
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 Q2083723). 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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