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About Charlestown

Charlestown, Baile Chathail in Irish, is a town in County Mayo, 79 km north of Galway. It stands on the N17 and L1331. The map gives it 2,397 buildings and 10 named streets, with 31 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 43 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 11th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Where
79 km north of Galway, 180 km from Dublin
Position
53.9642° N, 8.7942° W
Roads
N17 and L1331
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
2,397 buildings, 10 streets, 31 named places in 23 kinds
Charlestown village
Charlestown village·Robert Ashby, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Charlestown's Main Street
Charlestown's Main Street·Robert Ashby, 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 43 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N17 and L1331 running through Charlestown.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: St. Attracta's National School and Saint Joseph's Community College.

Questions people ask

Where is Charlestown?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 79 km north of Galway and 180 km from Dublin, on the N17 and L1331.
How big is Charlestown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,397 buildings, 10 named streets and 31 named places, which by building count makes it the 11th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Charlestown?
43 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ringfort, Ringfort and Toberarraght.
How do you get to Charlestown?
5 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Feda and Bus Éireann.
Has County Mayo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 388,887 people in the county in 1841 and 137,970 in 2022.
2,397
buildings on the model
10
named streets
31
named places
23
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 Q4507409). 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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