Ballybrittas

Ballybrittas Baile Briotáis
Village
View of Ballybrittas from the southwest (R445)
Ballybrittas Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°06′35″N 7°08′08″W / 53.1097°N 7.1355°W / 53.1097; -7.1355Coordinates: 53°06′35″N 7°08′08″W / 53.1097°N 7.1355°W / 53.1097; -7.1355
Country	Ireland
Province	Leinster
County	County Laois
Population  (2016)[1]	388
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))

Ballybrittas (Irish: Baile Briotáis, meaning 'town of the palisade', IPA:[ˈbˠalʲəˈbʲɾʲɪt̪ˠaːʃ])^[2] is a small village in the northeast of County Laois, Ireland situated on the R445 about 5 km SW of Monasterevin, County Kildare. Formerly on the N7 Dublin - Limerick road, the village is now bypassed by the M7 motorway.

Amenities[]

Businesses in the village include a pub, a service station, and a number of small businesses.

The local schools and churches are nearby in Rath and Killenard, while the local Gaelic Athletic Association club Courtwood is nearby.

Notable people[]

• Fergal Byron (born 1974), Laois Gaelic footballer
• Edmund Dease (1829-1904), Irish politician
• Robert Johnson (1745-1833) Irish judge and pamphleteer
• Eddie Kinsella (born 1966), Gaelic football referee
• James Lalor (1829-1922), Australian politician
• Stephen Radcliffe (1904-1982), first-class cricketer and British Army officer
• Charlotte Dease (1873-1953), author

See also[]

• List of towns and villages in Ireland

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ballybrittas.

• Ballybrittas in Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837)