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About Stradbally

Stradbally, An Sráidbhaile in Irish, is a town in County Laois, 41 km north of Kilkenny. It stands on the R427 and L7835. The map gives it 2,132 buildings and 12 named streets, with 82 places named on them in 48 kinds, and 160 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 6th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Population
1,404, as the map records it
Where
41 km north of Kilkenny, 70 km from Dublin
Position
53.0161° N, 7.1500° W
Roads
R427 and L7835
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
2,132 buildings, 12 streets, 82 named places in 48 kinds
A view of Stradbally Market House.
A view of Stradbally Market House.·Blackstairs4, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Stradbally in order

6 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the thirteenth century to 2016. That is not a history of Stradbally, 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 thirteenth century2016Woodstock CastleErnest Shackleton
The thirteenth century
The sixteenth century
  • the sixteenth centuryWhite CastleCastles · 11 km from the centre
The nineteenth 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 160 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R427 and L7835 running through Stradbally. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 5 lines call at 3 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 Stradbally?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 41 km north of Kilkenny and 70 km from Dublin, on the R427 and L7835.
How big is Stradbally?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,132 buildings, 12 named streets and 82 named places, which by building count makes it the 6th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Stradbally?
160 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Inaugural Rally, Abbey and The Stradbally Steam Museum.
How do you get to Stradbally?
5 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, JJ Kavanagh and Martley's. 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.
2,132
buildings on the model
12
named streets
82
named places
48
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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