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About Ballyknockan

Ballyknockan is a village in County Wicklow, 31 km south-west of Dublin. It stands on the L4365. The map gives it 303 buildings and 6 named streets, with 5 places named on them in 17 kinds, and 102 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 33th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.

Where
31 km south-west of Dublin
Position
53.1060° N, 6.4987° W
Roads
L4365
Governed
Wicklow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
303 buildings, 6 streets, 5 named places in 17 kinds
View towards Oghill & Poulaphouca Reservoir from western slopes of Silsean
View towards Oghill & Poulaphouca Reservoir from western slopes of Silsean·Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Photo taken from Silsean mountain. The village you can see closest is Ballyknockan
Photo taken from Silsean mountain. The village you can see closest is Ballyknockan·Johnpaul1945, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Wicklow 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.

155,85157,591126,14318412022

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 records the L4365 running through Ballyknockan.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 5 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 Ballyknockan?
In County Wicklow, in the province of Leinster, 31 km south-west of Dublin and 31 km from Dublin, on the L4365.
How big is Ballyknockan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 303 buildings, 6 named streets and 5 named places, which by building count makes it the 33th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.
What is there to see in Ballyknockan?
102 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Land Grabber Memorial, Welcome to Ballyknockan Granite Village and Troman Spring.
How do you get to Ballyknockan?
2 bus and train lines call at 5 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus and TFI Local Link Carlow Kilkenny Wicklow.
Has County Wicklow grown or shrunk?
The census counted 126,143 people in the county in 1841 and 155,851 in 2022.
303
buildings on the model
6
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 Q2881426). 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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