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About Ballintober

Ballintober, Baile an Tobair in Irish, is a village in County Roscommon, 65 km north-east of Galway. The map gives it 549 buildings and 0 named streets, with 6 places named on them in 14 kinds, and 50 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 16th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.

Where
65 km north-east of Galway, 148 km from Dublin
Position
53.7179° N, 8.4094° W, 83 m above sea level
Governed
Roscommon County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
549 buildings, 0 streets, 6 named places in 14 kinds
Ballintubber Castle
Ballintubber Castle·Jo and Steve Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Local road L6535 near Frenchtown approaching railway level crossing
Local road L6535 near Frenchtown approaching railway level crossing·Peter Wood, 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 50 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Ballintober; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 1 stop here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Saint Brides National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballintober?
In County Roscommon, in the province of Connacht, 65 km north-east of Galway and 148 km from Dublin.
How big is Ballintober?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 549 buildings, 0 named streets and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 16th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.
What is there to see in Ballintober?
50 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Saint Bride's Well, Ballintober Castle and Wills Grove.
How do you get to Ballintober?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Longford Westmeath Roscommon.
Has County Roscommon grown or shrunk?
The census counted 253,591 people in the county in 1841 and 70,259 in 2022.
549
buildings on the model
0
named streets
6
named places
14
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 Q4851769). 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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