About Ballymoe
Ballymoe, Béal Átha Mó in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 61 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the N60 and R367. The map gives it 466 buildings and 2 named streets, with 3 places named on them in 13 kinds, and 51 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 51th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
- Where
- 61 km north-east of Galway, 150 km from Dublin
- Position
- 53.6951° N, 8.4603° W, 80 m above sea level
- Roads
- N60 and R367
- Governed
- Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
- On the model
- 466 buildings, 2 streets, 3 named places in 13 kinds
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County Galway since 1841
Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.
Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.
What to see
Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.
- Tobermovee180 mHoly wells
- Dooghery2.4 kmHills
- Ballyglass Castle3.6 kmRingforts and sites
- Tobernaslauntia3.8 kmHoly wells
- Saint Bride's Well4.1 kmHoly wells
- Knocknagarra4.2 kmRingforts and sites
- Ballintober Castle4.2 kmCastles
- Site of Killomaine Grave Yard4.6 kmRingforts and sites
- Glinsk Castle5.2 kmCastles
- Ballinakill Abbey5.2 kmRuins
- Saint Patricks Well5.4 kmRingforts and sites
- Wills Grove5.5 kmHistoric houses
Getting around
The map records the N60 and R367 running through Ballymoe.
2 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.
The map records no school inside the settlement.
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Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q1936225). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.