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About Foxford

Foxford, Béal Easa in Irish, is a town in County Mayo, 79 km north of Galway. It stands on the N58 and R318. The map gives it 2,695 buildings and 17 named streets, with 48 places named on them in 41 kinds, and 94 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 10th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Where
79 km north of Galway, 201 km from Dublin
Position
53.9833° N, 9.1167° W, 12 m above sea level
Roads
N58 and R318
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
2,695 buildings, 17 streets, 48 named places in 41 kinds
Church of St Mary and St Michael, Foxford
Church of St Mary and St Michael, Foxford·Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Guiry's: interior of the pub
Guiry's: interior of the pub·Pamela Norrington, 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 94 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N58 and R318 running through Foxford. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 6 lines call at 6 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Saint Josephs Secondary School and Shraheen National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Foxford?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 79 km north of Galway and 201 km from Dublin, on the N58 and R318.
How big is Foxford?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,695 buildings, 17 named streets and 48 named places, which by building count makes it the 10th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Foxford?
94 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Foxford Woollen Mills, Admiral William Brown and Admiral William Brown.
How do you get to Foxford?
6 bus and train lines call at 6 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Citylink and Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail. 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.
2,695
buildings on the model
17
named streets
48
named places
41
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 Q1440225). 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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