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About Ballyboy

Ballyboy is a village in County Offaly, 65 km north-west of Kilkenny. The map gives it 314 buildings and 0 named streets, with 8 places named on them in 14 kinds, and 68 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 31th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.

Where
65 km north-west of Kilkenny, 98 km from Dublin
Position
53.1738° N, 7.6972° W
Governed
Offaly County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
314 buildings, 0 streets, 8 named places in 14 kinds

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 68 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

3 lines call at 1 stop 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 Ballyboy?
In County Offaly, in the province of Leinster, 65 km north-west of Kilkenny and 98 km from Dublin.
How big is Ballyboy?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 314 buildings, 0 named streets and 8 named places, which by building count makes it the 31th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.
What is there to see in Ballyboy?
68 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ballyboy Church, site of, Knockhill Grove and Kilcormac Community Garden.
How do you get to Ballyboy?
3 bus and train lines call at 1 stop here in the published timetable, run by Kearns Transport.
Has County Offaly grown or shrunk?
The census counted 146,857 people in the county in 1841 and 83,150 in 2022.
314
buildings on the model
0
named streets
8
named places
14
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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