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About Ballyhean

Ballyhean, Béal Átha hÉin in Irish, is a village in County Mayo, 60 km north of Galway. It stands on the N84. The map gives it 512 buildings and 1 named street, with 11 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 162 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 46th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Where
60 km north of Galway, 208 km from Dublin
Position
53.7935° N, 9.3153° W
Roads
N84
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
512 buildings, 1 street, 11 named places in 21 kinds
Killadee townland
Killadee townland·Robert Ashby, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Near Keelcoil
Near Keelcoil·Robert Ashby, 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 162 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N84 running through Ballyhean.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Ballyheane National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballyhean?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 60 km north of Galway and 208 km from Dublin, on the N84.
How big is Ballyhean?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 512 buildings, 1 named street and 11 named places, which by building count makes it the 46th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Ballyhean?
162 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ballyhean Church, Cooley Lough and Kinturk Castle.
How do you get to Ballyhean?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Mayo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 388,887 people in the county in 1841 and 137,970 in 2022.
512
buildings on the model
1
named streets
11
named places
21
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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