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Ballinakill () is a small village in County Laois, Ireland on the R432 regional road between Abbeyleix, Ballyragget and Castlecomer, County Kilkenny. As of the 2016 census, there were 445 people living in Ballinakill.

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Place details

Locality
Ballinakill
Region
Leinster
Country
Éire / Ireland
Population
445

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Key facts

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Ballinakill
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ga
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Village
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Ballinakill National School - geograph.org.uk - 633266.jpg
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Ballinakill National School
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Ireland
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right
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Location in Ireland
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Country
Settlement.subdivision_name
Ireland
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Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Leinster
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County
Settlement.subdivision_name3
County Laois
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Metric
Settlement.population_as_of
2016
Settlement.population_total
445
Settlement.population_density_km2
auto

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Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
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  • History
  • Landmarks
  • Sport
  • Transport
  • Recreation
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading

Ballinakill () is a small village in County Laois, Ireland on the R432 regional road between Abbeyleix, Ballyragget and Castlecomer, County Kilkenny. As of the 2016 census, there were 445 people living in Ballinakill.

==History== In 1606, Sir Thomas Coatch was granted the right to hold a market and fair in the village. The Ballinakill Cattle Fair continued until 1963. In 1611, Ballinakill was acquired by Sir Thomas Ridgeway who invested heavily by building a castle and developing the local area. From 1613 until the Acts of Union, the town was a parliamentary borough, electing two members to the Irish House of Commons.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ballinakill” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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