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Tipperary
County Tipperary · Munster

About Ballina

Ballina, Béal an Átha in Irish, is a village in County Tipperary, 21 km north-east of Limerick. It stands on the R494, L2129 and L2130. The map gives it 1,316 buildings and 44 named streets, with 59 places named on them in 47 kinds, and 85 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 14th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Where
21 km north-east of Limerick, 157 km from Dublin
Position
52.8092° N, 8.4373° W
Roads
R494, L2129 and L2130
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
1,316 buildings, 44 streets, 59 named places in 47 kinds
Killaloe Bridge over the River Shannon
Killaloe Bridge over the River Shannon·Antony Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Bridge between Ballina and Killaloe This bridge crosses the River Shannon and joins the towns of Ballina, County Tipperary and Killaloe, County Clare.
Bridge between Ballina and Killaloe This bridge crosses the River Shannon and joins the towns of Ballina, County Tipperary and Killaloe, County Clare.·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Tipperary 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.

435,553122,812167,89518412022

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 85 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R494, L2129 and L2130 running through Ballina.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 9 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Ballina?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 21 km north-east of Limerick and 157 km from Dublin, on the R494, L2129 and L2130.
How big is Ballina?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,316 buildings, 44 named streets and 59 named places, which by building count makes it the 14th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Ballina?
85 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Washerwoman Bridge, My Next Adventure and St Flannan's Oratory.
How do you get to Ballina?
3 bus and train lines call at 9 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and Piltown Coaches.
Has County Tipperary grown or shrunk?
The census counted 435,553 people in the county in 1841 and 167,895 in 2022.
1,316
buildings on the model
44
named streets
59
named places
47
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. 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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