Town comparison · Ballyconnell vs Kingscourt

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Ballyconnell or Kingscourt?

Both towns measured at town level, not the wider Eircode area, on the same 52 figures: prices, schools, amenities, social life, commute, affluence and safety.

Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan · H14 · 1,453 people | Kingscourt, Co. Cavan · A82 · 2,264 people

Ballyconnell is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 3 of the 7 dimensions to Kingscourt’s 1, with 3 level.

Ballyconnell leads on
affluencepublic transportaffordability
Kingscourt leads on
access to its nearest city
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Ballyconnell aheadlevel or not comparableKingscourt ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
BallyconnellKingscourt
iBallyconnell sits in H14, Kingscourt in A82. Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it’s actually measured at. The town ahead on a row is the one in green. Scores and percentages are charted against a true 0 to 100 scale; every other row is charted against the larger of the two towns, so the bars compare but don’t imply a ceiling.

Outlines are each town’s CSO Small Areas — the exact footprint every figure is measured over.

Ballyconnell
Kingscourt

Size

TOWN · census

Resident population at the 2022 CSO census, summed over the Small Areas that make up each town. Not scored: a bigger town isn’t a better one, it just explains why the counts below differ.

1,453
Population
2,264

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€216k
Median sale pricelower is better
€278k
Ballyconnell leads
€170k – €279k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€210k – €308k
75
Sales (24m)
85
+19.1%
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
9.3%
New-build share
30.6%

Schools, health & amenities

TOWN · counts

Facilities in and around each town — each counted once, for the town it’s closest to. Bigger towns naturally score higher — read alongside population.

3 prim · 0 sec
Schools
2 prim · 1 sec
Ballyconnell · 3 schools (largest first)
Ballyconnell Mxd N S Primary
204 pupils · Catholic
S N Naomh Maodhog Primary
58 pupils · Catholic
Ballyconell Central N S Primary
27 pupils · Church Of Ireland
Kingscourt · 3 schools (largest first)
Coláiste Dún An Rí Secondary
689 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
St Josephs N S Primary
370 pupils · Catholic
Cabra Central N S Primary
53 pupils · Church Of Ireland
5
Creches
3
Ballyconnell leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
2
Pharmacies
2
1
Hospitals
0
Ballyconnell leads
8
Bus stops
5
Ballyconnell leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
1
Gyms & leisure
2
Kingscourt leads
4
Parks & playgrounds
1
Ballyconnell leads
7
Sports pitches
14
Kingscourt leads

Social life

TOWN · counts

Places to eat, drink and go out in and around each town — each counted once, for the town it’s closest to. The residents per venue row is the fairer read — raw counts just track town size, so a big town wins by being big.

3
Restaurants
4
Kingscourt leads
2
Cafés
4
Kingscourt leads
8
Pubs & bars
8
2
Takeaways
4
Kingscourt leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
97
Residents per venuelower is better
113
Ballyconnell leads

Day-to-day

TOWN · counts

The errands you run without thinking about them. Same caveat — read the residents-per-service row alongside the counts.

1
Supermarkets
1
2
Convenience shops
5
Kingscourt leads
2
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
4
Kingscourt leads
1
Banks
2
Kingscourt leads
1
Post offices
1
2
Hairdressers
7
Kingscourt leads
1
Dentists
2
Kingscourt leads
0
Vets
0
3
Filling stations
3
2
EV charging
0
Ballyconnell leads
6
Library & community centre
4
Ballyconnell leads
69
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
78
Ballyconnell leads

Commute by car

TOWN · from centre

Drive time from the town centre to each city centre — typical off-peak, with an estimated weekday rush hour. OSRM road routing.

114m · ~150 rush
Dublinlower is better
78m · ~115 rush
Kingscourt leads
155m · ~180 rush
Galwaylower is better
165m · ~190 rush
Ballyconnell leads
210m · ~225 rush
Waterfordlower is better
176m · ~190 rush
Kingscourt leads
192m · ~210 rush
Limerick
192m · ~210 rush
255m · ~275 rush
Corklower is better
237m · ~260 rush
Kingscourt leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-5.1
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-6.4
Ballyconnell leads
Ballyconnell · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-6BallyconnellBelow average
-5BallyconnellBelow average
Kingscourt · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-9KingscourtDisadvantaged
-4KingscourtBelow average
28.0%
Third-level educated
28.1%
Kingscourt leads
31.4%
Professional class
28.0%
Ballyconnell leads
11.7%
Unemploymentlower is better
12.7%
Ballyconnell leads
52.2%
Owner-occupier
65.5%
Kingscourt leads
21.1%
Private rental
19.4%
5.1%
Social housing (LA)
11.8%

Liveability & safety

AREA · H14 / A82

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (BallyconnellH14, KingscourtA82); safety & crime are the Cavan/Monaghan Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

56/100
Quality of Life
62/100
Kingscourt leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (H14 / A82) from official data — Garda crime, CSO income & census, OPW flood, EPA water, and transport/healthcare/broadband coverage. Refreshed quarterly. The dashed line is each town’s overall score (that average) — dimensions to its right beat the average, to its left fall short. Two towns can share a score with a very different mix.

BallyconnellKingscourtOverall (avg)
Safety56746274
Affordability10094
Infrastructure3026
Family8283
Education1842
Environment6284
Economic2534
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#27
National ranklower is better
#66
Ballyconnell leads
#2
County ranklower is better
#1
Kingscourt leads
74/100
Safety
74/100
40
Crime / 1,000
40

Affluence range

Pobal HP deprivation index, published per Electoral Division, so the spread shows the town’s poorest to richest ED. A town that is a single ED shows one mark, no range.

Ballyconnell Below average-5.1
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Ballyconnell -6 (least affluent) → Ballyconnell -5 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Kingscourt Below average-6.4
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Kingscourt -9 (least affluent) → Kingscourt -4 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.

How accurate is this, and at what level?

TOWN
Prices, amenities and commute are exact and town-specific.

Prices come from individual PPR sales inside the town’s Small-Area boundary; schools, GPs, transport, gyms and parks are counted the same way; commute is routed from the town centre.

ED
Affluence, profile and tenure are Electoral-Division level.

Published per Electoral Division and averaged across the town’s EDs, with a range where the town spans several.

AREA
Liveability and safety are wider-area, not the town.

Quality of life and rank are per Eircode routing key; safety and crime are the Garda division (Cavan/Monaghan), coarser than a town, so two towns in the same county read the same.

Population growth isn’t shown: the 2016 and 2022 censuses don’t use the same Small Areas, and the areas that were re-cut are the ones that grew, so a like-for-like comparison understates growth badly. Rent and yield are still too sparse to show per town. Built from 13 CSO Small Areas.

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