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About Blue Ball

Blue Ball, An Phailís in Irish, is a village in County Offaly, 69 km north of Kilkenny. The map gives it 293 buildings and 0 named streets, with 7 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 77 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 33th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.

Where
69 km north of Kilkenny, 91 km from Dublin
Position
53.2284° N, 7.6156° W
Governed
Offaly County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
293 buildings, 0 streets, 7 named places in 18 kinds
The N52 in the townland of Derrynahinch
The N52 in the townland of Derrynahinch·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Entering the village of Blue Ball on the R357
Entering the village of Blue Ball on the R357·Eric Jones, 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 77 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

4 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: Coolanarney National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Blue Ball?
In County Offaly, in the province of Leinster, 69 km north of Kilkenny and 91 km from Dublin.
How big is Blue Ball?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 293 buildings, 0 named streets and 7 named places, which by building count makes it the 33th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.
What is there to see in Blue Ball?
77 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Pallas Lake, Pallas Lake and Pallas Lake.
How do you get to Blue Ball?
4 bus and train lines call at 2 stops 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.
293
buildings on the model
0
named streets
7
named places
18
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 Q4088364). 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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