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Ballylinan
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Ballylinan or Ballylynan () is a town in County Laois, about from the border with County Kildare in Ireland. The name means "Lynan's town", though exactly who Lynan was is now forgotten.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in IE, across 3 mapped points.
Vinony's link graph records 69 inbound references to Ballylinan, and connects out to Republic of Ireland, New York City and time zone.
Vinony files it under Townlands of County Laois, Towns and villages in County Laois and Untranslated Irish place names.
Vinony links it to 9 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Region
- Leinster
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 1,084
- Timezone
- Europe/Dublin
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Ballylinan
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ga
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- The_main_street_of_Ballylynan_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1431306.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Main Street
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ireland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Leinster
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- County Laois
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2022
- Settlement.population_total
- 1167
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Laois
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- The main street of Ballylynan - geograph.org.uk - 1431306.jpg
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- Irish Grid Reference
- S644885
- Commons category
- Ballylinan
- historic county
- County Laois
- native label
- Baile Uí Laigheanáin
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Transport
- Development and amenities
- Sport
- People
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- References
Ballylinan or Ballylynan () is a town in County Laois, about from the border with County Kildare in Ireland. The name means "Lynan's town", though exactly who Lynan was is now forgotten.
==Transport== A 12-mile railway line linking Ballylinan to the nearby towns of Athy, County Kildare and Wolfhill, County Laois was opened in September 1918 by the British government during WW1 to aid the supply of coal. It was closed at the end of 1929 but the section connecting Ballylinan to Athy was retained for sugar beet traffic until 1963, when it was fully closed. Some of the trackbed still exists around the Athy area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ballylinan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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