Ballyragget
Sign in to saveBallyragget () is a small town on the river Nore in the north of County Kilkenny in Ireland. Ballyragget is on the N77 road, north of Kilkenny. As of the 2022 census, it had a population of 1,082 people.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Ballyragget
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ga
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Castles_of_Leinster,_Ballyragget,_Kilkenny_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1393576.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Ballyragget Castle, a 15th century tower house, overlooks the town
- 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 Kilkenny
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2022
- Settlement.population_total
- 1116
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
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Ballyragget () is a small town on the river Nore in the north of County Kilkenny in Ireland. Ballyragget is on the N77 road, north of Kilkenny. As of the 2022 census, it had a population of 1,082 people.
== Toponymy == The name 'Ragget' is Anglo-Norman in origin, and denotes a once-prominent Norman landowner Richard le Ragget who held these lands in the early part of the 13th century.