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About Ballinrobe

Ballinrobe, Baile an Róba in Irish, is a town in County Mayo, 41 km north of Galway. It stands on the N84, R331 and R334. The map gives it 3,439 buildings and 30 named streets, with 47 places named on them in 37 kinds, and 95 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 5th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Population
3,148, as the map records it
Where
41 km north of Galway, 198 km from Dublin
Position
53.6241° N, 9.2221° W
Roads
N84, R331, R334, L1611 and L1612
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
3,439 buildings, 30 streets, 47 named places in 37 kinds
Cranmore House from the Bowers Walk
Cranmore House from the Bowers Walk·Mghchilli, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Moore Hall from the avenue.
Moore Hall from the avenue.·Mghchilli, CC BY-SA 3.0 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 95 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N84, R331, R334, L1611 and L1612 running through Ballinrobe. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Saint Joseph's Primary School and Cloonliffen National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballinrobe?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 41 km north of Galway and 198 km from Dublin, on the N84, R331 and R334.
How big is Ballinrobe?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 3,439 buildings, 30 named streets and 47 named places, which by building count makes it the 5th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Ballinrobe?
95 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ballinrobe Priory, Cranmore House and R.C. Chapel.
How do you get to Ballinrobe?
4 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Burkesbus, Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Galway.
Has County Mayo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 388,887 people in the county in 1841 and 137,970 in 2022.
3,439
buildings on the model
30
named streets
47
named places
37
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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