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About Breaghwy

Breaghwy, Bréachmhaigh in Irish, is a village in County Mayo, 65 km north of Galway. It stands on the N5, N60 and R308. The map gives it 894 buildings and 19 named streets, with 19 places named on them in 28 kinds, and 144 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 24th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Where
65 km north of Galway, 204 km from Dublin
Position
53.8490° N, 9.2396° W, 49 m above sea level
Roads
N5, N60, R308 and R373
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
894 buildings, 19 streets, 19 named places in 28 kinds
The Breaffy House, Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland. December, 2007
The Breaffy House, Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland. December, 2007·Gary Miotla, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Breaghwy in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1252 to 2001. That is not a history of Breaghwy, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

12522001Strade AbbeyNational Museum of Ireland, Country Life
The thirteenth century
  • 1252Strade AbbeyHistoric churches · 11 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The nineteenth century
The twenty-first century

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 144 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N5, N60, R308 and R373 running through Breaghwy.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Breaffy School.

Questions people ask

Where is Breaghwy?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 65 km north of Galway and 204 km from Dublin, on the N5, N60 and R308.
How big is Breaghwy?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 894 buildings, 19 named streets and 19 named places, which by building count makes it the 24th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Breaghwy?
144 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Fairy Village, Breaffy Woods and Capparicar Lough.
How do you get to Breaghwy?
3 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Citylink and Michael Moran.
Has County Mayo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 388,887 people in the county in 1841 and 137,970 in 2022.
894
buildings on the model
19
named streets
19
named places
28
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 Q2084426). 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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