Ballyfin
Ballyfin is a village and parish in the Slieve Bloom Mountains in County Laois, Ireland. It is around 8 km west of Portlaoise, on the L21121 local road which joins the R423 regional road between Mountrath and Mountmellick.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mountrath and Portlaoise.
Mountrath
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Mountrath is a town in County Laois, with a population in 2022 of about 2100. In the 18th and 19th century it was industrial, with weaving and metal-working from local iron ores.
Portlaoise
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Portlaoise or Port Laoise is the county town of County Laois, in the south midlands of Ireland. It's a large town that acts as a transport hub for the region and is within an hour's travel of Dublin.
Mountmellick
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Mountmellick is a town in County Laois, with a population of about 4900 in 2022. It's difficult to believe that this small place was once a large industrial town: English Quakers settled in the 17th century and founded breweries, a distillery, woollen mills, cotton, tanneries and glassworks.
Ballyfin
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: town in Leinster, Ireland
- Categories: human settlement, townland, and locality
- Location: County Laois, Leinster, East Coast and Midlands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.05659° or 53° 3′ 24″ northLongitude
-7.41031° or 7° 24′ 37″ westElevation
128 metres (420 feet)Open location code
9C5J3H4Q+JVOpenStreetMap ID
node 1117806733OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Ballyfin” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Ballyfin”
- Chinese: “巴利芬”
- Dutch: “Ballyfin”
- Irish: “An Baile Fionn”
- Lithuanian: “Balifinas”
- Lithuanian: “Ballyfin”
- Russian: “Баллифин”
- Swedish: “Baile Fionn”
- Swedish: “Ballyfin”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Saint Fintan’s Church and Ballyfin Community Centre.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ballyfin”. Photo: Djkeddie, CC BY-SA 4.0.