
Blue Ball, County Offaly
Things to do in Blue Ball
Find places that fit your time and your plans. 2 of them are in Blue Ball itself and 75 more within twelve kilometres, because the castle outside the village is usually the reason to go to the village.
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Places to explore in pictures

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A.-K. D. · CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons. Resized and cropped for display. Saint Mella's Cell
10.8 km north-west of Blue Ball · Some of it indoors

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More places to explore
- LakesPallas Lake940 m from the centreOutdoors · About 30 min
- LakesPallas Lake1.9 km from the centreOutdoors · About 30 min
- LakesPallas Lake2.2 km east of Blue BallOutdoors · About 30 min
- HillsLowerton Hill2.6 km south-west of Blue BallOutdoors
- HillsMullaghmaghery3.3 km east of Blue BallOutdoors
- CastlesRathlihen Castle (ruins)3.9 km south-west of Blue BallSome of it indoors · About 45 min
- Historic churchesRathlihen Church Ruin3.9 km south-west of Blue BallSome of it indoors
- WoodsRoss Wood4 km east of Blue BallOutdoors · About 40 min
- CastlesKillooley Castle4.4 km south-west of Blue BallSome of it indoors · About 45 min
- HillsArdnagross Hill4.4 km north-east of Blue BallOutdoors
- Holy wellsArdnagross Well4.5 km north-east of Blue BallOutdoors · About 15 min
- LakesLough Finnamore4.5 km west of Blue BallOutdoors · About 30 min
- WoodsRoss Wood4.6 km east of Blue BallOutdoors · About 40 min
- HillsSugar Hill4.9 km east of Blue BallOutdoors
- WoodsMahon's Wood5.2 km east of Blue BallOutdoors · About 40 min
- RuinsOld Quay5.3 km north of Blue BallOutdoors · About 20 min
- RuinsPriest's Bridge5.3 km north of Blue BallOutdoors · About 20 min
- WoodsBig Wood5.4 km north-east of Blue BallOutdoors · About 40 min
- WoodsBridge Wood5.5 km east of Blue BallOutdoors · About 40 min
- HillsMullagh Hill5.9 km south-east of Blue BallOutdoors
- LakesTunduff Mor Wetlands5.9 km west of Blue BallOutdoors · About 30 min
- RuinsCharleville Gate6.1 km north-east of Blue BallOutdoors · About 20 min
- HillsTroy's Island or Derryheeragh6.1 km south-west of Blue BallOutdoors
- LakesTunduff Mor Wetlands6.3 km west of Blue BallOutdoors · About 30 min
- HillsSt O'Hara's Hill7 km east of Blue BallOutdoors
- LakesPollgorm7.1 km south of Blue BallOutdoors · About 30 min
- ParksCharleville Castle Demesne7.2 km north-east of Blue BallOutdoors · About 30 min
- LakesTunduff Beg Wetlands7.3 km west of Blue BallOutdoors · About 30 min
- WoodsCharleville Forest7.5 km north-east of Blue BallOutdoors · About 40 min
- HillsTrumpet Hill7.6 km north of Blue BallOutdoors
- LakesLough Boora7.6 km west of Blue BallOutdoors · About 30 min
- HillsSoldier's Hill7.7 km south of Blue BallOutdoors
- MuseumsLough Boora Sculpture Park7.8 km west of Blue BallIndoors · About 1 hr
- WoodsCharleville Forest7.8 km north-east of Blue BallOutdoors · About 40 min
- ParksGreenview Park8.1 km north-west of Blue BallOutdoors · About 30 min
- ParksCharleville Castle Demesne8.2 km north-east of Blue BallOutdoors · About 30 min
- HillsCocta Hill8.2 km north-west of Blue BallOutdoors
- RuinsBallyboy Church, site of8.3 km south-west of Blue BallOutdoors · About 20 min
- MuseumsLough Boora Sculpture Park8.3 km west of Blue BallIndoors · About 1 hr
- RuinsSrah Castle8.8 km north-east of Blue BallOutdoors · About 20 min
- Historic churchesKilmanman Church8.8 km south-east of Blue BallSome of it indoors
- CastlesCastle Cuffe (ruins)8.9 km south of Blue BallSome of it indoors · About 45 min
- Ringforts and sitesRaheen8.9 km south of Blue BallOutdoors · About 20 min
- LakesTarraun Lough8.9 km west of Blue BallOutdoors · About 30 min
- MonumentsPyramid / Teepee9 km west of Blue BallOutdoors · About 15 min
- WoodsKnockhill Grove9 km south-west of Blue BallOutdoors · About 40 min
- LakesCaptain's Lough9 km south-east of Blue BallOutdoors · About 30 min
- ParksTullamore Wetlands9.1 km north-east of Blue BallOutdoors · About 30 min
- HillsRed Hill9.1 km east of Blue BallOutdoors
- ParksTurraun Wetlands9.2 km west of Blue BallOutdoors · About 30 min
- ParksLloyd Town Park9.3 km north-east of Blue BallOutdoors · About 30 min
- ParksMillenium Square9.4 km north-east of Blue BallOutdoors · About 30 min
- ParksTurraun Wetlands9.4 km north-west of Blue BallOutdoors · About 30 min
- ParksGreenview Park9.5 km north-west of Blue BallOutdoors · About 30 min
- RuinsMesolithic site9.7 km west of Blue BallOutdoors · About 20 min
- GardensKilcormac Community Garden9.7 km south-west of Blue BallOutdoors · About 40 min
- HillsScrub Hill9.8 km east of Blue BallOutdoors
- WoodsBeach Clump9.9 km south-west of Blue BallOutdoors · About 40 min
- LakesBrittas Lake10.1 km south-east of Blue BallOutdoors · About 30 min
- RuinsBrittas House10.5 km south-east of Blue BallOutdoors · About 20 min
- AttractionsClara Bog Boardwalk10.5 km north of Blue BallSome of it indoors · About 45 min
- CastlesBallynakill Castle (ruins)10.7 km south-east of Blue BallSome of it indoors · About 45 min
- MuseumsClonaslee Heritage Centre10.9 km south-east of Blue BallIndoors · About 1 hr
- RuinsArdara Bridge11.1 km south of Blue BallOutdoors · About 20 min
- Historic churchesSaint Manchan's Church11.1 km north-west of Blue BallSome of it indoors
- MuseumsLemanaghan National School11.2 km north-west of Blue BallIndoors · About 1 hr
- CastlesLemanaghan Castle11.2 km north-west of Blue BallSome of it indoors · About 45 min
- LakesRainwater Reservoir11.6 km north-east of Blue BallOutdoors · About 30 min
- MonumentsPortal Dolmen11.7 km south of Blue BallOutdoors · About 15 min
- Ringforts and sitesGiant's Wedge11.7 km south of Blue BallOutdoors · About 20 min
- MonumentsAisling Murphy Memorial11.8 km north-east of Blue BallOutdoors · About 15 min
- Historic churchesRearymore Church (ruins)11.8 km south-east of Blue BallSome of it indoors
- Ringforts and sitesCillín Burial Ground12 km north-west of Blue BallOutdoors · About 20 min
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in Blue Ball
75
within 12 km
73
outdoors
17
indoors
20
for children
By kind
While you are there
1 place to eat and 0 places to stay on the map in Blue Ball, and 4 bus and train lines calling here.
Questions people ask
What is there to do in Blue Ball?
2 places inside Blue Ball and 75 more within twelve kilometres, mostly lakes, hills and parks.
How is indoors or outdoors decided?
By what kind of place each one is: a museum is indoors, a park is not, a castle is some of each. OpenStreetMap carries an indoor tag on about one visitor place in three hundred, so a filter built on the tag would hide almost everything. This is a rule about kinds of place, not a claim about any one of them.
Does with kids mean it is suitable for my child?
No. It means the kind of place children generally do: playgrounds, beaches, parks, zoos, museums. The map records an age limit on a handful of places in the country, so nothing here claims a place suits a particular age.
What does it cost, and when is it open?
This page does not say. OpenStreetMap records a fee on about one visitor place in sixty and opening hours on one in fifty, so stating either would mean guessing for almost everything. Each place's own page shows what the map does hold and links to the operator.
How do you get to Blue Ball?
4 bus and train lines call at a stop in Blue Ball in the published timetable, run by Kearns Transport. Which of them runs on the day you are going, and how long it takes from where you are starting, is worked out on the Getting to Blue Ball page.
Places are OpenStreetMap records and each links to the one it came from. Indoors, outdoors and with kids are worked out from what kind of place a thing is, not from tags on it, because the tags exist on almost none of them. Visit lengths are a default for each kind. Distances are straight lines from the centre of Blue Ball.