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About Borris-in-Ossory

Borris-in-Ossory, Buiríos Mór Osraí in Irish, is a village in County Laois, 41 km north-west of Kilkenny. It stands on the M7 and R445. The map gives it 775 buildings and 14 named streets, with 17 places named on them in 26 kinds, and 66 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 10th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Where
41 km north-west of Kilkenny, 102 km from Dublin
Position
52.9391° N, 7.6315° W, 105 m above sea level
Roads
M7 and R445
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
775 buildings, 14 streets, 17 named places in 26 kinds
Main Street, Borris-in-Ossory
Main Street, Borris-in-Ossory·Darrin Antrobus, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Main Street, Borris-in-Ossory
Main Street, Borris-in-Ossory·Darrin Antrobus, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Borris-in-Ossory in order

5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the twelfth century to 1636. That is not a history of Borris-in-Ossory, 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 · 7.8 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • the twelfth centuryRoscrea ChurchRuins · 11 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fourteenth century
  • 1382Aghaboe AbbeyAttractions · 8.1 km from the centre
  • the 1400sRoscrea AbbeyAbbeys · 11 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
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 66 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M7 and R445 running through Borris-in-Ossory.

By bus or train

4 lines call at 4 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 Borris-in-Ossory?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 41 km north-west of Kilkenny and 102 km from Dublin, on the M7 and R445.
How big is Borris-in-Ossory?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 775 buildings, 14 named streets and 17 named places, which by building count makes it the 10th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Borris-in-Ossory?
66 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Derrin Castle (in ruins), Sentry Hill and St. Kieran's Well.
How do you get to Borris-in-Ossory?
4 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Slieve Bloom Coach Tours and TFI Local Link Laois Offaly.
Has County Laois grown or shrunk?
The census counted 153,930 people in the county in 1841 and 91,877 in 2022.
775
buildings on the model
14
named streets
17
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 Q2668797). 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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