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Ballylinan

Town in County Laois, Ireland

Summary

Town in County Laois, Ireland

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subdivision_name3County Laois
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population_total1167
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Ballylinan or Ballylynan () is a town in County Laois, about 3 km 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.

Development and amenities

|1991|431 |1996|406 |2002|430 |2006|754 |2011|1084 |2016|1101 |2022|1167 Ballylinan is mainly a farmland area with no significant industrialisation, although the building of a number of housing developments has mirrored an increase in the area's population. In the 14 years between the 2002 and 2016 census, the population of the town increased nearly three-fold, from 430 people to 1,101 inhabitants.

The town has a number of shops, a church, a Garda (police) station, school, garage, park, Pharmacy (just opened), and pub. Most of these are on the one road, the N78.

The National Ploughing Association is based in Ballylinan.

Sport

Ballylinan GAA is the local Gaelic football club.

People

  • William Russell Grace (1832–1904), the first Roman Catholic mayor of New York and the founder of W. R. Grace and Company, was born in Ballylinan.

References

References

  1. (August 2023). "Census 2022 - F1015 Population". [[Central Statistics Office (Ireland).
  2. "Baile Uí Laigheanáin / Ballylynan". Irish Placenames Commission.
  3. "Railway Stations, Ballylinan".
  4. (April 2016). "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Ballylinan". Central Statistics Office.
  5. "Ballylinan (Ireland) Census Town".
  6. (January 2022). "Laois residents raise concerns for their village ahead of meeting on County Development Plan". Laois Today.
  7. "Ballylinan, Co. Laois in 1967".
  8. "Ballylinan/Baile Uí Laígheanaín". [[Laois GAA]].
  9. "The Honourable William Russel Grace, Mayor of New York".
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