About Irishtown
Irishtown, An Baile Gaelach in Irish, is a village in County Mayo, 44 km north of Galway. It stands on the R328. The map gives it 510 buildings and 1 named street, with 4 places named on them in 11 kinds, and 75 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 47th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
- Where
- 44 km north of Galway, 177 km from Dublin
- Position
- 53.6627° N, 8.8880° W
- Roads
- R328
- Governed
- Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
- On the model
- 510 buildings, 1 street, 4 named places in 11 kinds
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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.
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.
- Lisatober980 mRingforts and sites
- Castlereach Lough1.2 kmLakes
- Lisgrona1.2 kmRingforts and sites
- Lisnapool2.0 kmRingforts and sites
- Lisbrack2.1 kmRingforts and sites
- Esker Fort2.5 kmRingforts and sites
- Lisnagroagh2.6 kmRingforts and sites
- Listeige2.6 kmRingforts and sites
- Conor's Fort2.8 kmRingforts and sites
- Cloonmore Church2.9 kmHistoric churches
- Cloonalroon Lake3.0 kmLakes
- Cuillaun Fort3.2 kmRingforts and sites
Getting around
The map records the R328 running through Irishtown.
No stop here appears in the national timetable.
The map records no school inside the settlement.
Questions people ask
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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 Q3776633). 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.