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County Tipperary · Munster

About Ballylooby

Ballylooby is a village in County Tipperary, 57 km south-east of Limerick. The map gives it 470 buildings and 3 named streets, with 4 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 102 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 45th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.

Where
57 km south-east of Limerick, 162 km from Dublin
Position
52.3277° N, 7.9844° W
Governed
Tipperary County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
470 buildings, 3 streets, 4 named places in 19 kinds

Ballylooby in order

5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1142 to 1813. That is not a history of Ballylooby, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

11421813Cahir CastleOur Lady and St. Kieran
The twelfth century
  • 1142Cahir CastleCastles · 6.5 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • 1186Ardfinnan CastleCastles · 7.3 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • 1192Knockgraffon MotteRingforts and sites · 10 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The thirteenth century
  • the thirteenth centuryCaher AbbeyAbbeys · 6.9 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The nineteenth century

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 102 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Ballylooby; 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: Ballylooby National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballylooby?
In County Tipperary, in the province of Munster, 57 km south-east of Limerick and 162 km from Dublin.
How big is Ballylooby?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 470 buildings, 3 named streets and 4 named places, which by building count makes it the 45th largest of the 83 settlements this site covers in County Tipperary.
What is there to see in Ballylooby?
102 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Knockane Castle ruins, Cloheenafishoge Castle (ruins) and Raheen.
How do you get to Ballylooby?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Tipperary grown or shrunk?
The census counted 435,553 people in the county in 1841 and 167,895 in 2022.
470
buildings on the model
3
named streets
4
named places
19
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 Q4076764). 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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