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About Ballyfarnan

Ballyfarnan, Béal Átha Fearnáin in Irish, is a village in County Roscommon, 105 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the L1906. The map gives it 543 buildings and 4 named streets, with 12 places named on them in 24 kinds, and 142 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 17th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.

Where
105 km north-east of Galway, 151 km from Dublin
Position
54.0727° N, 8.2047° W, 59 m above sea level
Roads
L1906
Governed
Roscommon County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
543 buildings, 4 streets, 12 named places in 24 kinds
Ballyfarnan, County Roscommon (2)
Ballyfarnan, County Roscommon (2)·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Alderford House, Alderford, Ballyfarnon, Co. Roscommon (1)
Alderford House, Alderford, Ballyfarnon, Co. Roscommon (1)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Ballyfarnan in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the 40th century to 2003. That is not a history of Ballyfarnan, 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 40th century2003Carrowkeel neolithic siteArigna Mining Experience
The sixteenth century
  • 1590Ballinafad CastleCastles · 10 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The twenty-first century
The 40th century

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 142 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L1906 running through Ballyfarnan.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballyfarnan?
In County Roscommon, in the province of Connacht, 105 km north-east of Galway and 151 km from Dublin, on the L1906.
How big is Ballyfarnan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 543 buildings, 4 named streets and 12 named places, which by building count makes it the 17th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.
What is there to see in Ballyfarnan?
142 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Josie McDermott Memorial, Feorish and The Miners Way.
How do you get to Ballyfarnan?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Donegal Sligo Leitrim.
Has County Roscommon grown or shrunk?
The census counted 253,591 people in the county in 1841 and 70,259 in 2022.
543
buildings on the model
4
named streets
12
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 (item Q1824751). 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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