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County Mayo

Lough Mallard

Lough Mallard covers 24 ha with 3.1 km of shore in County Mayo, 1.2 km north-east of Snugboro.

Getting to the water

A public road or path on the map comes within 14 m of the shore, along about 350 m of it, and there are 3 more stretches like it elsewhere on the shore. That is what the map contains. It is not a statement that the public may walk there, because OpenStreetMap does not record permission, and nobody has checked this lake against its owner.

24 ha
of water
3.1 km
of shore
4
stretches of shore a way reaches
1
viewpoints within 2.5 km
Area
24 ha measured from the mapped outline
Shore
3.1 km around the outline
Public access
A public way reaches the shoreMeasured from the map, not from a statement of permission

No openly licensed photograph of Lough Mallard was found. Rather than show a picture of somewhere else, this page shows none.

Where it is

The pin sits from the main access point on the shore, and every distance on this page is measured from that same point. The other pins are the nearest lakes in County Mayo.

Parking, viewpoints and stops

Everything here is measured from the main access point on the shore. A viewpoint is a place that looks at the lake, which is not the same as a place on it.

Parking

No mapped car park within two kilometres has a walking route to this shore. That is a gap in the map rather than a statement that there is nowhere to park.

Viewpoints
  • An unnamed viewpoint1.4 km
Nearest stops

No bus stop or station is mapped within two kilometres.

Getting to Lough Mallard

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About these directions

Public transport times come from National Transport Authority. Timetables cover 2026-09-18 to 2027-09-19. These are scheduled services; check with the operator for cancellations and changes before travelling.

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How journey planning works
Destination, access and nearby stops

Lough Mallard is in Snugboro, County Mayo. Routes here end at the stretch of shore a public way reaches, which this site measured on the ground.

Snugboro is the nearest settlement, 1.2 km north-east of the lake. Arriving in Snugboro is not arriving at the water, so the journeys below are worked out to the water and say so when they cannot reach it.
Stops near it

The nearest scheduled stop is Mayo Hospital (15109), 2.1 km away in a straight line. Use the planner to check walking connections for your journey.

  • Mayo Hospital 2.1 km
    buses 440, 456, 422, 420 and 460a among others
    Scheduled departures from this stop
  • Castlebar 2.2 km
    buses 440, 456, 422 and 420 among others
    Scheduled departures from this stop
  • Ellison Street 2.5 km
    bus 437
    Scheduled departures from this stop

Getting to Snugboro covers the journeys into the town itself.

The nearest other lakes

Ordered by distance from the main access point on the shore, in a straight line, which is the same point and the same measure as the figures beside them.

Questions people ask

Can you walk to Lough Mallard?
A public road or path comes within 14 m of the shore, along about 350 m of it. That is what the map shows; it is not a statement of permission, which the map does not record.
How big is Lough Mallard?
24 ha, with 3.1 km of shore, measured from the outline OpenStreetMap holds.
Where can you park for Lough Mallard?
The map records no car park within two kilometres that a walking route reaches. That is a gap in the map rather than a statement that there is nowhere to park.
How do you get to Lough Mallard without a car?
The nearest stop in the national timetable is Mayo Hospital, 2.1 km from the main access point on the shore in a straight line, and buses 440, 456, 422, 420 and 460a among others call there, run by Bus Éireann. The planner on this page works out the walk from that stop, and where no footway joins it to the water it says so rather than making a number up.

Where this comes from

The lake itself
The outline, the name and the identifiers are OpenStreetMap records. Correct it there Figures marked Wikidata come from Q33283810.
What this site measured
The area and the shore are worked out from that outline. The stretches of shore a way reaches, the walk in from a car park and every distance on this page are worked out here, on this site’s own graph of the OpenStreetMap ways, last built on 2026-09-20. These are this site’s calculations, not the map’s, and a mistake in them is a mistake here.