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About Killala

Killala, Cill Ala in Irish, is a town in County Mayo, 105 km north of Galway. It stands on the R314. The map gives it 1,746 buildings and 11 named streets, with 43 places named on them in 24 kinds, and 106 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 16th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Population
587, as the map records it
Where
105 km north of Galway, 217 km from Dublin
Position
54.2139° N, 9.2209° W
Roads
R314
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
1,746 buildings, 11 streets, 43 named places in 24 kinds
South-east view of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Killala.
South-east view of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Killala.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Across the bay
Across the bay·Michael Dibb, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Killala in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth century. That is not a history of Killala, 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.

the fifteenth centurythe seventeenth centuryMoyne AbbeySaint Patrick's
The fifteenth century
  • the fifteenth centuryMoyne AbbeyAbbeys · 3.1 km from the centre
  • the 1440sRosserk AbbeyAbbeys · 6.9 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The seventeenth 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 106 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R314 running through Killala.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 6 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Killala National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Killala?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 105 km north of Galway and 217 km from Dublin, on the R314.
How big is Killala?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,746 buildings, 11 named streets and 43 named places, which by building count makes it the 16th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Killala?
106 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Rathcran, Rathbeg and Lough Meelick.
How do you get to Killala?
3 bus and train lines call at 6 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and McGrath Coaches.
Has County Mayo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 388,887 people in the county in 1841 and 137,970 in 2022.
1,746
buildings on the model
11
named streets
43
named places
24
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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