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About Ballina

Ballina, Béal an Átha in Irish, is a town in County Mayo, 94 km north of Galway, with 10,556 people at the 2022 census. It stands on the N26, N59 and R294. The map gives it 8,506 buildings and 117 named streets, with 213 places named on them in 97 kinds, and 109 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Population
10,556 at the 2022 census
Where
94 km north of Galway, 208 km from Dublin
Position
54.1143° N, 9.1532° W, 7 m above sea level
Area
29.92 km²
Roads
N26, N59, R294, R314, R928, L1101, L1119 and L11194
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
Twinned with
Athis-Mons, France, Scranton, United States, Craigavon, United Kingdom, Pittsfield, United States and Ballina, Australia
On the model
8,506 buildings, 117 streets, 213 named places in 97 kinds
A 19th century photograph of Knox Street in Ballina, County Mayo Ireland
A 19th century photograph of Knox Street in Ballina, County Mayo Ireland·Robert French, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
A 19th century photograph of Knox Street in Ballina, County Mayo Ireland
A 19th century photograph of Knox Street in Ballina, County Mayo Ireland·Robert French, public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Ballina in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the fifteenth century to 1827. That is not a history of Ballina, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

the fifteenth century1827Moyne AbbeySaint Muredach's Cathedral
The fifteenth century
  • the fifteenth centuryMoyne AbbeyAbbeys · 9.9 km from the centre
  • the 1440sRosserk AbbeyAbbeys · 6.4 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The nineteenth century

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 109 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N26, N59, R294, R314, R928, L1101, L1119 and L11194 running through Ballina. 8 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 15 lines call at 7 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

6 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballina?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 94 km north of Galway and 208 km from Dublin, on the N26, N59 and R294.
How big is Ballina?
10,556 people at the 2022 census. On the map it is 8,506 buildings and 117 named streets.
What is there to see in Ballina?
109 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Jackie Clarke Collection, Walled Garden and Ardnaree Augustinian Abbey.
How do you get to Ballina?
15 bus and train lines call at 7 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Citylink and Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Mayo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 388,887 people in the county in 1841 and 137,970 in 2022.
8,506
buildings on the model
117
named streets
213
named places
97
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 Q384721). 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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