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About Castlebar

Castlebar, Caisleán an Bharraigh in Irish, is a town in County Mayo, 67 km north of Galway, with 12,068 people at the 2016 census. It stands on the N5, N84 and R307. The map gives it 7,385 buildings and 184 named streets, with 475 places named on them in 145 kinds, and 148 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the second largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Population
12,068 at the 2016 census
Where
67 km north of Galway, 208 km from Dublin
Position
53.8568° N, 9.2980° W, 49 m above sea level
Roads
N5, N84, R307, R308, R309, R310, R311 and R373
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
Twinned with
Ancona, Italy, Auray, France, Höchstadt an der Aisch, Germany and Ballymena, United Kingdom
On the model
7,385 buildings, 184 streets, 475 named places in 145 kinds
Sculpture in Market Square, Castlebar
Sculpture in Market Square, Castlebar·Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castlebar - View E along Linenhall St
Castlebar - View E along Linenhall St·Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castlebar in order

7 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1870 to 2001. That is not a history of Castlebar, 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.

18702001French Hill MonumentNational Museum of Ireland, Country Life
The nineteenth century
The twentieth 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 148 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N5, N84, R307, R308, R309, R310, R311 and R373 running through Castlebar. 43 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 14 lines call at 11 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

11 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Castlebar?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 67 km north of Galway and 208 km from Dublin, on the N5, N84 and R307.
How big is Castlebar?
12,068 people at the 2016 census. On the map it is 7,385 buildings and 184 named streets.
What is there to see in Castlebar?
148 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Linen Hall, Saint John Baptist de La Salle and 1798 Memorial.
How do you get to Castlebar?
14 bus and train lines call at 11 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Citylink and Eugene Deffely. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Mayo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 388,887 people in the county in 1841 and 137,970 in 2022.
7,385
buildings on the model
184
named streets
475
named places
145
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 Q749196). 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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