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About Mountbolus

Mountbolus, Cnocán Bhólais in Irish, is a village in County Offaly, 66 km north-west of Kilkenny. The map gives it 359 buildings and 4 named streets, with 9 places named on them in 16 kinds, and 76 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 29th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.

Where
66 km north-west of Kilkenny, 93 km from Dublin
Position
53.1965° N, 7.6290° W, 91 m above sea level
Governed
Offaly County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
359 buildings, 4 streets, 9 named places in 16 kinds
Ireland in Ruins Pt III: Rathrobin House, Co. Offaly (2)
Ireland in Ruins Pt III: Rathrobin House, Co. Offaly (2)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ireland in Ruins Pt III: Rathrobin House, Co. Offaly (1)
Ireland in Ruins Pt III: Rathrobin House, Co. Offaly (1)·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 76 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Mountbolus National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Mountbolus?
In County Offaly, in the province of Leinster, 66 km north-west of Kilkenny and 93 km from Dublin.
How big is Mountbolus?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 359 buildings, 4 named streets and 9 named places, which by building count makes it the 29th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.
What is there to see in Mountbolus?
76 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Rathlihen Castle (ruins), Rathlihen Church Ruin and Lowerton Hill.
How do you get to Mountbolus?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Offaly grown or shrunk?
The census counted 146,857 people in the county in 1841 and 83,150 in 2022.
359
buildings on the model
4
named streets
9
named places
16
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 Q3776275). 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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