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County Offaly · Leinster

About Horseleap

Horseleap is a village in County Offaly, 85 km north of Kilkenny. The map gives it 355 buildings and 0 named streets, with 6 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 80 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 30th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.

Where
85 km north of Kilkenny, 88 km from Dublin
Position
53.3926° N, 7.5815° W, 128 m above sea level
Governed
Offaly County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
355 buildings, 0 streets, 6 named places in 20 kinds
Castles of Leinster: Donore, Westmeath (1)
Castles of Leinster: Donore, Westmeath (1)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Leinster: Donore, Westmeath (2)
Castles of Leinster: Donore, Westmeath (2)·Mike Searle, 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 80 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops 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 Horseleap?
In County Offaly, in the province of Leinster, 85 km north of Kilkenny and 88 km from Dublin.
How big is Horseleap?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 355 buildings, 0 named streets and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 30th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.
What is there to see in Horseleap?
80 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ferrari Horse Statue, Horseleap United and Brides Well.
How do you get to Horseleap?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Offaly grown or shrunk?
The census counted 146,857 people in the county in 1841 and 83,150 in 2022.
355
buildings on the model
0
named streets
6
named places
20
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 Q2473138). 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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