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About Ballycroy

Ballycroy is a village in County Mayo, 98 km north-west of Galway. The map gives it 138 buildings and 1 named street, with 9 places named on them in 15 kinds, and 62 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 98th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Where
98 km north-west of Galway, 246 km from Dublin
Position
54.0250° N, 9.8262° W
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
138 buildings, 1 street, 9 named places in 15 kinds
Looking west from Ballycroy National Park Centre
Looking west from Ballycroy National Park Centre·Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A willow sculpture by Aidan Crotty stands amongst purple moor-grass at the Wild Nephin Ballycroy National Park Visitor Centre, with the Nephin Beg mountain range in the distance.
A willow sculpture by Aidan Crotty stands amongst purple moor-grass at the Wild Nephin Ballycroy National Park Visitor Centre, with the Nephin Beg mountain range in the distance.·Karie Kuiper, 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 62 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

1 line calls at 1 stop here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Naomh Bhríde.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballycroy?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 98 km north-west of Galway and 246 km from Dublin.
How big is Ballycroy?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 138 buildings, 1 named street and 9 named places, which by building count makes it the 98th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Ballycroy?
62 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Dipping Pool, Wild Nephin National Park Visitor Centre and Bunmore West.
How do you get to Ballycroy?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Mayo.
Has County Mayo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 388,887 people in the county in 1841 and 137,970 in 2022.
138
buildings on the model
1
named streets
9
named places
15
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 Q4852072). 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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