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About Carracastle

Carracastle is a village in County Mayo, 79 km north of Galway. The map gives it 524 buildings and 0 named streets, with 3 places named on them in 12 kinds, and 39 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 43th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Where
79 km north of Galway, 174 km from Dublin
Position
53.9503° N, 8.6925° W
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
524 buildings, 0 streets, 3 named places in 12 kinds
N5, Charlestown bypass
N5, Charlestown bypass·N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Welcome to Co. Rosscommon, N5
Welcome to Co. Rosscommon, N5·N Chadwick, 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 39 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

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: Scoil Íosa - Carracastle.

Questions people ask

Where is Carracastle?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 79 km north of Galway and 174 km from Dublin.
How big is Carracastle?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 524 buildings, 0 named streets and 3 named places, which by building count makes it the 43th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Carracastle?
39 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Mullaghanoe, Old Cave Burial Ground and Ardkill Old Child Burial Ground.
How do you get to Carracastle?
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.
524
buildings on the model
0
named streets
3
named places
12
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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