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About Ballybay

Ballybay, Béal Átha na Beithe in Irish, is a town in County Monaghan, 96 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the R162, R180 and R183. The map gives it 3,013 buildings and 24 named streets, with 46 places named on them in 35 kinds, and 175 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 5th largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.

Population
1,329, as the map records it
Where
96 km north-west of Dublin
Position
54.1289° N, 6.9030° W, 61 m above sea level
Roads
R162, R180, R183, L3100, L3101 and L3120
Governed
Monaghan County Council, in the province of Ulster
Twinned with
Osterhofen, Germany
On the model
3,013 buildings, 24 streets, 46 named places in 35 kinds
Main Street, Ballybay
Main Street, Ballybay·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Hall Street, Ballybay
Hall Street, Ballybay·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Monaghan 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.

200,44245,73265,28818412022

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 175 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R162, R180, R183, L3100, L3101 and L3120 running through Ballybay.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 7 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Ballybay Community College, Scoil Éanna and Ballybay Central National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballybay?
In County Monaghan, in the province of Ulster, 96 km north-west of Dublin and 96 km from Dublin, on the R162, R180 and R183.
How big is Ballybay?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 3,013 buildings, 24 named streets and 46 named places, which by building count makes it the 5th largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.
What is there to see in Ballybay?
175 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Rabbit Burrow, Ballybay Town Park and Lough Major.
How do you get to Ballybay?
2 bus and train lines call at 7 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Cavan Monaghan.
Has County Monaghan grown or shrunk?
The census counted 200,442 people in the county in 1841 and 65,288 in 2022.
3,013
buildings on the model
24
named streets
46
named places
35
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 Q878530). 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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