About Ballyforan
Ballyforan, Béal Átha Feorainne in Irish, is a village in County Roscommon, 56 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the R363. The map gives it 452 buildings and 2 named streets, with 8 places named on them in 16 kinds, and 77 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 25th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.
- Where
- 56 km north-east of Galway, 134 km from Dublin
- Position
- 53.4702° N, 8.2661° W
- Roads
- R363
- Governed
- Roscommon County Council, in the province of Connacht
- On the model
- 452 buildings, 2 streets, 8 named places in 16 kinds
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.
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.
- Claremont House420 mHistoric houses
- Liscreebagh1.9 kmRingforts and sites
- Lissaphuca2.5 kmRingforts and sites
- Carrowkeel Fort3.6 kmRingforts and sites
- Cronin Fort3.7 kmRingforts and sites
- Taghboy Lough4.1 kmLakes
- Toberhop4.2 kmHoly wells
- Yellow Well4.3 kmHoly wells
- Turrock Fort5.0 kmRingforts and sites
- Lisgradoge5.1 kmRingforts and sites
- Gortnaphuill Fort5.2 kmRingforts and sites
- Fair Hill5.4 kmHills
Getting around
The map records the R363 running through Ballyforan.
No stop here appears in the national timetable.
1 school or college on the map: Ballyforan Mixed National School.
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. 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.