About Bekan
Bekan is a village in County Mayo, 55 km north of Galway. The map gives it 544 buildings and 0 named streets, with 7 places named on them in 12 kinds, and 104 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 39th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
- Where
- 55 km north of Galway, 177 km from Dublin
- Position
- 53.7580° N, 8.8508° W, 84 m above sea level
- Governed
- Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
- On the model
- 544 buildings, 0 streets, 7 named places in 12 kinds
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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.
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.
- Bekan Lough860 mLakes
- Loughagormadeen1.2 kmLakes
- Dermot & Grania's Bed1.3 kmRingforts and sites
- The Turlough1.8 kmLakes
- Crohery Lough1.8 kmLakes
- Cloonacurry Lough2.2 kmLakes
- Lisheennafreaghoge2.4 kmRingforts and sites
- Lisnadurraha2.5 kmRingforts and sites
- Curragh Lough2.7 kmLakes
- Cloonturnaun Lough2.9 kmLakes
- Derrykin Lough3.2 kmLakes
- Cullentragh Lough3.2 kmLakes
Getting around
The map gives no numbered road inside Bekan; the roads it does record are local.
No stop here appears in the national timetable.
The map records no school inside the settlement.
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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 Q1946559). 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.