Skip to content
Mayo
Ballina, County Mayo

Things to do in Ballina

Find places that fit your time and your plans. 13 of them are in Ballina itself and 96 more within twelve kilometres, because the castle outside the village is usually the reason to go to the village.

96 places

Places to explore in pictures

More places to explore

Showing 96 of 109 places, with photographs first. Every kind of place in Ballina lists the rest.

13
in Ballina
96
within 12 km
95
outdoors
18
indoors
9
for children

Put a day together

A day on foot in Ballina: 9 stops the map records, joined in the shortest order that walks them all, 6.41 km in total.

Ballina in a day

By kind

While you are there

36 places to eat and 8 places to stay on the map in Ballina, and 15 bus and train lines calling here.

Places to eat·Ballina on the map·Getting to Ballina

Questions people ask

What is there to do in Ballina?
13 places inside Ballina and 96 more within twelve kilometres, mostly lakes, ringforts and sites and castles.
How is indoors or outdoors decided?
By what kind of place each one is: a museum is indoors, a park is not, a castle is some of each. OpenStreetMap carries an indoor tag on about one visitor place in three hundred, so a filter built on the tag would hide almost everything. This is a rule about kinds of place, not a claim about any one of them.
Does with kids mean it is suitable for my child?
No. It means the kind of place children generally do: playgrounds, beaches, parks, zoos, museums. The map records an age limit on a handful of places in the country, so nothing here claims a place suits a particular age.
What does it cost, and when is it open?
This page does not say. OpenStreetMap records a fee on about one visitor place in sixty and opening hours on one in fifty, so stating either would mean guessing for almost everything. Each place's own page shows what the map does hold and links to the operator.
How do you get to Ballina?
15 bus and train lines call at a stop in Ballina in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Citylink and Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail. Which of them runs on the day you are going, and how long it takes from where you are starting, is worked out on the Getting to Ballina page.

Places are OpenStreetMap records and each links to the one it came from. Indoors, outdoors and with kids are worked out from what kind of place a thing is, not from tags on it, because the tags exist on almost none of them. Visit lengths are a default for each kind. Distances are straight lines from the centre of Ballina.