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About Balla

Balla is a village in County Mayo, 59 km north of Galway. It stands on the N60 and L1705. The map gives it 951 buildings and 11 named streets, with 20 places named on them in 26 kinds, and 119 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 21th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Where
59 km north of Galway, 196 km from Dublin
Position
53.8046° N, 9.1306° W, 118 m above sea level
Roads
N60 and L1705
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
951 buildings, 11 streets, 20 named places in 26 kinds
A view of St Cronan’s Church.
A view of St Cronan’s Church.·Michael Deligan, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Mayo 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.

388,887109,525137,97018412022

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 119 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N60 and L1705 running through Balla. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

4 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Balla Secondary School and Balla National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Balla?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 59 km north of Galway and 196 km from Dublin, on the N60 and L1705.
How big is Balla?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 951 buildings, 11 named streets and 20 named places, which by building count makes it the 21th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Balla?
119 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Nally Memorial, Tobermurry and Holy Trinity Church, Balla.
How do you get to Balla?
4 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Citylink and Michael Moran.
Has County Mayo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 388,887 people in the county in 1841 and 137,970 in 2022.
951
buildings on the model
11
named streets
20
named places
26
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 (item Q805124). 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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