Horseleap has a church, primary school, garden centre, pub and petrol station.

[2] According to tradition, the English name - Horseleap - originated in an incident in which a member of the De Lacy family was forced to flee on horseback from the Mac Geoghegans.

Mac Geoghegan's forces won the battle, and Butler, together with several others of high rank and 140 of his soldiers, was killed.

[4] A story concerning a bronze statue of a prancing horse on the village green claims that it was commissioned in Italy by the sports car manufacturer, Ferrari, and eventually wound up in Horseleap following a series of misadventures.

Journalist Joe Saward identified the tale as an urban myth, pointing out that Ferrari have denied the story.