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About Baltinglass

Baltinglass, Bealach Conglais in Irish, is a town in County Wicklow, 49 km north-east of Kilkenny, with 1,735 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the N81, R747 and L3279. The map gives it 1,815 buildings and 37 named streets, with 43 places named on them in 38 kinds, and 84 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 9th largest of the 45 settlements this site covers in County Wicklow.

Population
1,735 at the 2006 census
Where
49 km north-east of Kilkenny, 54 km from Dublin
Position
52.9402° N, 6.7084° W, 118 m above sea level
Roads
N81, R747, L3279, L3280 and L3290
Governed
Wicklow County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,815 buildings, 37 streets, 43 named places in 38 kinds
The nave of the church in Baltinglass Abbey, showing the archways either side. The pyramidal tomb of the Stratford family can be seen at right.
The nave of the church in Baltinglass Abbey, showing the archways either side. The pyramidal tomb of the Stratford family can be seen at right.·Rob Hurson, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Baltinglass Abbey
Baltinglass Abbey·Rob Hurson, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Baltinglass in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1148 to 1825. That is not a history of Baltinglass, 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.

11481825Baltinglass AbbeyDuckett's Grove
The twelfth century
  • 1148Baltinglass AbbeyHistoric churches · 430 m from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • 1179Moone AbbeyHistoric churches · 8.9 km from the centre
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century

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 84 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N81, R747, L3279, L3280 and L3290 running through Baltinglass.

By bus or train

3 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 Baltinglass?
In County Wicklow, in the province of Leinster, 49 km north-east of Kilkenny and 54 km from Dublin, on the N81, R747 and L3279.
How big is Baltinglass?
1,735 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 1,815 buildings and 37 named streets.
What is there to see in Baltinglass?
84 things the map records in and around it, the closest being 1798 Memorial, Baltinglass Abbey and Site of Stratord Lodge.
How do you get to Baltinglass?
3 bus and train lines call at 5 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, JJ Kavanagh 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.
1,815
buildings on the model
37
named streets
43
named places
38
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 Q805765). 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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