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County Westmeath · Leinster

About Ballinalack

Ballinalack is a village in County Westmeath, 86 km west of Dublin. It stands on the N4. The map gives it 128 buildings and 2 named streets, with 9 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 76 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 36th largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.

Where
86 km west of Dublin
Position
53.6282° N, 7.4695° W
Roads
N4
Governed
Westmeath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
128 buildings, 2 streets, 9 named places in 21 kinds
Castles of Leinster: Carrick, Westmeath
Castles of Leinster: Carrick, Westmeath·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
"Phyllis Christine" spotted at Ballinalack, Co. Westmeath on Sunday 28th August 2011. Details: SCANIA G380 - Temperature Controlled Distribution - L7104
"Phyllis Christine" spotted at Ballinalack, Co. Westmeath on Sunday 28th August 2011. Details: SCANIA G380 - Temperature Controlled Distribution - L7104·Peter Mooney, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Westmeath 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.

141,30052,86196,22118412022

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 records the N4 running through Ballinalack.

By bus or train

3 lines call 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 Ballinalack?
In County Westmeath, in the province of Leinster, 86 km west of Dublin and 86 km from Dublin, on the N4.
How big is Ballinalack?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 128 buildings, 2 named streets and 9 named places, which by building count makes it the 36th largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.
What is there to see in Ballinalack?
76 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Carrick Castle, Lough Iron and Tobercrummeen.
How do you get to Ballinalack?
3 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Longford Westmeath Roscommon.
Has County Westmeath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 141,300 people in the county in 1841 and 96,221 in 2022.
128
buildings on the model
2
named streets
9
named places
21
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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