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About Ballyleague

Ballyleague is a village in County Roscommon, 83 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the N63. The map gives it 552 buildings and 12 named streets, with 20 places named on them in 24 kinds, and 19 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 15th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.

Where
83 km north-east of Galway, 120 km from Dublin
Position
53.6753° N, 7.9954° W
Roads
N63
Governed
Roscommon County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
552 buildings, 12 streets, 20 named places in 24 kinds
River Shannon at Lanesborough, Co. Longford, Ireland
River Shannon at Lanesborough, Co. Longford, Ireland·Miguel Mendez from Malahide, Ireland, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
River Shannon at Lanesborough, Co. Longford, Ireland
River Shannon at Lanesborough, Co. Longford, Ireland·Miguel Mendez from Malahide, Ireland, CC BY 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 19 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N63 running through Ballyleague. 3 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 8 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Ballyleague?
In County Roscommon, in the province of Connacht, 83 km north-east of Galway and 120 km from Dublin, on the N63.
How big is Ballyleague?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 552 buildings, 12 named streets and 20 named places, which by building count makes it the 15th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.
What is there to see in Ballyleague?
19 things the map records in and around it, the closest being White Sand Wood, White Sand Wood and Rathcline Castle.
How do you get to Ballyleague?
3 bus and train lines call at 8 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and 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.
552
buildings on the model
12
named streets
20
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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