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About Ballycastle

Ballycastle, Baile an Chaisil in Irish, is a town in County Mayo, 114 km north of Galway. The map gives it 1,085 buildings and 2 named streets, with 19 places named on them in 22 kinds, and 70 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 19th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Population
220, as the map records it
Where
114 km north of Galway, 229 km from Dublin
Position
54.2788° N, 9.3693° W
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
1,085 buildings, 2 streets, 19 named places in 22 kinds
Sunset At Carrowniskey (134211879)
Sunset At Carrowniskey (134211879)·Chris Chapman, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Road to Ballycastle
Road to Ballycastle·Michael Dibb, CC BY-SA 2.0 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 70 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Ballycastle; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 9 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballycastle?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 114 km north of Galway and 229 km from Dublin.
How big is Ballycastle?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,085 buildings, 2 named streets and 19 named places, which by building count makes it the 19th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Ballycastle?
70 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Killeena Lough, Ballycastle Beach and Aghaleague.
How do you get to Ballycastle?
3 bus and train lines call at 9 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and McGrath Coaches.
Has County Mayo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 388,887 people in the county in 1841 and 137,970 in 2022.
1,085
buildings on the model
2
named streets
19
named places
22
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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