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About Ballinamore

Ballinamore, Béal an Átha Móir in Irish, is a town in County Leitrim, 119 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the R202, R204 and L1312. The map gives it 2,232 buildings and 27 named streets, with 106 places named on them in 68 kinds, and 159 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 5th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Leitrim.

Where
119 km north-east of Galway, 128 km from Dublin
Position
54.0527° N, 7.8003° W
Roads
R202, R204 and L1312
Governed
Leitrim County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
2,232 buildings, 27 streets, 106 named places in 68 kinds
Main St geograph.org.uk 7171541
Main St geograph.org.uk 7171541·N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Main St geograph.org.uk 7171542
Main St geograph.org.uk 7171542·N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Leitrim 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.

155,29725,05735,19918412022

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.

All 159 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R202, R204 and L1312 running through Ballinamore.

By bus or train

7 lines call at 6 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Ballinamore Boys School, Ballinamore Community School and Saint Brigids National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballinamore?
In County Leitrim, in the province of Connacht, 119 km north-east of Galway and 128 km from Dublin, on the R202, R204 and L1312.
How big is Ballinamore?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,232 buildings, 27 named streets and 106 named places, which by building count makes it the 5th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Leitrim.
What is there to see in Ballinamore?
159 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ballinamore Tourism Office, Leitrim Genealogy Centre and John Joe McGirl.
How do you get to Ballinamore?
7 bus and train lines call at 6 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, TFI Local Link Cavan Monaghan and TFI Local Link Donegal Sligo Leitrim.
Has County Leitrim grown or shrunk?
The census counted 155,297 people in the county in 1841 and 35,199 in 2022.
2,232
buildings on the model
27
named streets
106
named places
68
kinds of place

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. 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.

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