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About Belmullet

Belmullet, Béal an Mhuirthead in Irish, is a town in County Mayo, 122 km north-west of Galway. It stands on the R313, L5285 and L52851. The map gives it 2,828 buildings and 30 named streets, with 75 places named on them in 52 kinds, and 33 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 8th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Population
1,042, as the map records it
Where
122 km north-west of Galway, 263 km from Dublin
Position
54.2241° N, 9.9872° W, 5 m above sea level
Roads
R313, L5285 and L52851
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
2,828 buildings, 30 streets, 75 named places in 52 kinds
Water tower, Belmullet
Water tower, Belmullet·N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The main street of An Geata Mór
The main street of An Geata Mór·Neville Goodman, 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 33 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R313, L5285 and L52851 running through Belmullet.

By bus or train

5 lines call at 10 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Coláiste Bhreandáin Naofa, Our Lady's Secondary School and Aghaglasheen National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Belmullet?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 122 km north-west of Galway and 263 km from Dublin, on the R313, L5285 and L52851.
How big is Belmullet?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,828 buildings, 30 named streets and 75 named places, which by building count makes it the 8th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Belmullet?
33 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Mayo trails, Visitor information and War of Independence Erris Volunteers.
How do you get to Belmullet?
5 bus and train lines call at 10 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Corduff Travel and 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.
2,828
buildings on the model
30
named streets
75
named places
52
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 Q816116). 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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