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Blue Ball.
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A new place to stop. A different way to explore. Find your way around Blue Ball, with local places and the journey there on one map.
7 mapped places to explore.
4 bus and train lines in the published timetable.
Explore Blue Ball
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Blue Ball is a village in County Offaly. The map names 7 places inside it, from shops and cafés to schools and churches, and 0 streets. 4 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable.
Your guide to Blue Ball.
Plan the journey, find a place to stop and get to know the streets along the way.
- The journey here
Getting to Blue Ball
4 scheduled lines from Kearns Transport. Choose your starting point, travel date and time to find a connection.
- Mapped stops
- 0
- Mapped car parks
- 0
- See and do
Things to see
77 places to explore within 12 km, plus 1 place to eat and 0 places to stay on the map.
- Castles and their stories
Castle days around Portumna
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- Street by street
Every street
0 named streets to browse on the local map.
- The local picture
About Blue Ball
Get your bearings with the location, landscape and local facts, including population figures where available.
Getting to Blue Ball
4 lines call at 2 stops in Blue Ball, run by Kearns Transport. That list does not change with the date. What does change is which of them runs on the day you are going, and that, with the walk at each end, is worked out when you ask for it.
- 843
- 845
- 847
- UM02
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Explore Blue Ball by category
Find somewhere to eat, a place to visit or an everyday service. Search or choose a theme to explore places in and around Blue Ball.
18 of 18 categories to explore
Things to see
A lake to linger beside, a castle to explore or a museum for a rainy afternoon. Find places for a day out.
- Attractions, 1 mapped place in and around Blue Ball
- Castles, 7 mapped places in and around Blue Ball
- Gardens, 1 mapped place in and around Blue Ball
- Hills, 12 mapped places in and around Blue Ball
- Historic churches, 5 mapped places in and around Blue Ball
- Holy wells, 1 mapped place in and around Blue Ball
- Lakes, 11 mapped places in and around Blue Ball
- Monuments, 4 mapped places in and around Blue Ball
- Museums, 3 mapped places in and around Blue Ball
- Parks, 7 mapped places in and around Blue Ball
- Ringforts and sites, 3 mapped places in and around Blue Ball
- Ruins, 8 mapped places in and around Blue Ball
- Woods, 7 mapped places in and around Blue Ball
Food and drink
Coffee on the way, lunch in town or a pub for the evening. Choose a kind of place, then find it locally.
Shops
Everyday essentials, independent shops and places for a haircut. See what is mapped in your town.
Community
The places that bring a town together, including schools, libraries, places of worship and community facilities.
Services
Local services for everyday jobs, from banking and post to professional advice.
Motoring
Find fuel, repairs and other motoring services before your next journey.
Things to see
A starting point for exploring Blue Ball and its surroundings, with the closest places to the centre first. Distances are straight lines, not walking routes.
- Pallas Lake940 mLakes
- Pallas Lake2.2 kmLakes
- Lowerton Hill2.5 kmHills
- Mullaghmaghery3.3 kmHills
- Rathlihen Castle (ruins)3.9 kmCastles
- Rathlihen Church Ruin3.9 kmHistoric churches
- Ross Wood4.0 kmWoods
- Ardnagross Hill4.4 kmHills
- Killooley Castle4.4 kmCastles
- Ardnagross Well4.5 kmHoly wells
- Lough Finnamore4.5 kmLakes
- Sugar Hill4.9 kmHills