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About Ballaghaderreen

Ballaghaderreen, Bealach an Doirín in Irish, is a town in County Roscommon, 76 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the N5, R293 and L1203. The map gives it 3,188 buildings and 49 named streets, with 51 places named on them in 41 kinds, and 36 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the third largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.

Where
76 km north-east of Galway, 165 km from Dublin
Position
53.9014° N, 8.5789° W
Roads
N5, R293, L1203 and L1244
Governed
Roscommon County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
3,188 buildings, 49 streets, 51 named places in 41 kinds
Barrack Street, Ballaghadereen
Barrack Street, Ballaghadereen·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Bridge over the Lung River
Bridge over the Lung River·David Purchase, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Roscommon 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.

253,59151,89770,25918412022

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 36 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N5, R293, L1203 and L1244 running through Ballaghaderreen.

By bus or train

5 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: St. Attracata's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballaghaderreen?
In County Roscommon, in the province of Connacht, 76 km north-east of Galway and 165 km from Dublin, on the N5, R293 and L1203.
How big is Ballaghaderreen?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 3,188 buildings, 49 named streets and 51 named places, which by building count makes it the 3th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.
What is there to see in Ballaghaderreen?
36 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ballaghaderreen Playground, Four Altars and Bockagh Hill.
How do you get to Ballaghaderreen?
5 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, TFI Local Link Donegal Sligo Leitrim and Westlink Coaches.
Has County Roscommon grown or shrunk?
The census counted 253,591 people in the county in 1841 and 70,259 in 2022.
3,188
buildings on the model
49
named streets
51
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. 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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