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About Ballinalee

Ballinalee, Béal Átha na Lao in Irish, is a village in County Longford, 104 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the R194, L1055 and L1056. The map gives it 49 buildings and 8 named streets, with 11 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 52 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 21th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.

Where
104 km north-west of Dublin
Position
53.7756° N, 7.6580° W
Roads
R194, L1055 and L1056
Governed
Longford County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
49 buildings, 8 streets, 11 named places in 19 kinds
Ballinalee, County Longford, near to Ballinalee, Longford, Ireland. Approaching on the R194 from the west.
Ballinalee, County Longford, near to Ballinalee, Longford, Ireland. Approaching on the R194 from the west.·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Sean MacEoin by Andrew J Hill 081
Sean MacEoin by Andrew J Hill 081·Andrewincowtown, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Longford 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.

115,49128,25046,75118412022

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 52 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R194, L1055 and L1056 running through Ballinalee.

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 Samhthann.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballinalee?
In County Longford, in the province of Leinster, 104 km north-west of Dublin and 104 km from Dublin, on the R194, L1055 and L1056.
How big is Ballinalee?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 49 buildings, 8 named streets and 11 named places, which by building count makes it the 21th largest of the 32 settlements this site covers in County Longford.
What is there to see in Ballinalee?
52 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Gurteen Lough, Aghaward fort and Currygrane Lough.
How do you get to Ballinalee?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Longford Westmeath Roscommon.
Has County Longford grown or shrunk?
The census counted 115,491 people in the county in 1841 and 46,751 in 2022.
49
buildings on the model
8
named streets
11
named places
19
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 Q4076773). 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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