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About Ballinagar

Ballinagar, Béal Átha na gCarr in Irish, is a village in County Offaly, 69 km north of Kilkenny. The map gives it 536 buildings and 4 named streets, with 5 places named on them in 15 kinds, and 47 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 15th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.

Where
69 km north of Kilkenny, 72 km from Dublin
Position
53.2660° N, 7.3379° W, 82 m above sea level
Governed
Offaly County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
536 buildings, 4 streets, 5 named places in 15 kinds
Ballinagar, County Offaly
Ballinagar, County Offaly·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Offaly 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.

146,85751,30883,15018412022

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 47 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

2 lines call 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: Saint Joseph's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballinagar?
In County Offaly, in the province of Leinster, 69 km north of Kilkenny and 72 km from Dublin.
How big is Ballinagar?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 536 buildings, 4 named streets and 5 named places, which by building count makes it the 15th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.
What is there to see in Ballinagar?
47 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Furzehill Wood, Father Burbage and The Green.
How do you get to Ballinagar?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Go-Ahead Ireland.
Has County Offaly grown or shrunk?
The census counted 146,857 people in the county in 1841 and 83,150 in 2022.
536
buildings on the model
4
named streets
5
named places
15
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 Q4076768). 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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