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County Westmeath · Leinster

About Ballinea

Ballinea is a village in County Westmeath, 79 km west of Dublin. The map gives it 363 buildings and 2 named streets, with 5 places named on them in 17 kinds, and 105 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 18th largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.

Where
79 km west of Dublin
Position
53.5071° N, 7.4212° W
Governed
Westmeath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
363 buildings, 2 streets, 5 named places in 17 kinds
County Westmeath, Ballinea Bridge.
County Westmeath, Ballinea Bridge.·Royalcanalrunner, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
County Westmeath, Bellmont Bridge.
County Westmeath, Bellmont Bridge.·Royalcanalrunner, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 105 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

2 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: St Kenny National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballinea?
In County Westmeath, in the province of Leinster, 79 km west of Dublin and 79 km from Dublin.
How big is Ballinea?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 363 buildings, 2 named streets and 5 named places, which by building count makes it the 18th largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.
What is there to see in Ballinea?
105 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Royal Canal, Hopestown Church and Royal Canal.
How do you get to Ballinea?
2 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.
363
buildings on the model
2
named streets
5
named places
17
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 Q97354900). 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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