Borris
Borris is a village in the south of County Carlow, with a population in 2016 of 652. The main reasons to visit are for events at Borris House and for hiking in the Blackstairs mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 652 residents
- Description: village in County Carlow, Ireland
- Also known as: “Borris-Idrone” and “Borris, County Carlow”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ullard Church and Saint Fiacre’s Well.
Ullard Church
Ruins
Photo: AFBorchert, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ullard Church is a medieval church and National Monument in County Kilkenny, Ireland.
Borris House
House
Photo: sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Borris House is an Irish country house near Borris, County Carlow. It is the ancestral home of the McMorrough-Kavanagh family.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballymurphy and Ballinkillin.
Ballymurphy
Village
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Ballymurphy, historically Ballymurchoe, is a village in County Carlow, Ireland on the R702 regional road. It lies on the western flank of the Blackstairs Mountains. Ballymurphy lies between the Carlow town of Borris and the Wexford village of Kiltealy. Ballymurphy is situated 5 km southeast of Borris.
Ballinkillin
Locality
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Ballinkillin or Ballinkillen is a small village between Borris and Bagenalstown in County Carlow, Ireland. The village itself has 20 homes and about 74 people. It includes a national school, shop, hurling pitch and two housing estates. Ballinkillin is situated 6 km north of Borris.
Goresbridge
Village
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Goresbridge is a small village located in the east of County Kilkenny, in the province of Leinster, Ireland. Goresbridge is named after a 1756 bridge, built by Colonel Ralph Gore, which provides a crossing of the River Barrow between County Kilkenny and County Carlow in the South-East region. Goresbridge is situated 6 km northwest of Borris.
Borris
- Category: locality
- Location: County Carlow, Leinster, Southeast Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.5988° or 52° 35′ 56″ northLongitude
-6.9202° or 6° 55′ 13″ westPopulation
652Elevation
47 metres (154 feet)United Nations Location Code
IE ZMYOpen location code
9C4MH3XH+GWOpenStreetMap ID
node 52231938OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Borris” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Borris (Carlow konderria)”
- Basque: “Borris”
- Cebuano: “Borris”
- Dutch: “Borris”
- French: “Borris”
- Georgian: “ბორისი”
- German: “Borris”
- Irish: “An Bhuiríos, Contae Cheatharlach”
- Irish: “An Bhuiríos”
- Irish: “Buirgheas Ó nDróna”
- Polish: “Borris”
- Russian: “Боррис”
- Spanish: “Borris”
- Swedish: “Borris”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Borris”. Photo: sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0.