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About Bellanagare

Bellanagare, Béal Átha na gCarr in Irish, is a village in County Roscommon, 77 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the N5. The map gives it 522 buildings and 2 named streets, with 3 places named on them in 11 kinds, and 58 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 20th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.

Where
77 km north-east of Galway, 150 km from Dublin
Position
53.8373° N, 8.3821° W, 60 m above sea level
Roads
N5
Governed
Roscommon County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
522 buildings, 2 streets, 3 named places in 11 kinds
The N5 at the village of Bellanagare, Co Roscommon
The N5 at the village of Bellanagare, Co Roscommon·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Catholic Church at the village of Bellanagare
The Catholic Church at the village of Bellanagare·Eric Jones, 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 58 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N5 running through Bellanagare.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: St. Mary's NS Ballinagare.

Questions people ask

Where is Bellanagare?
In County Roscommon, in the province of Connacht, 77 km north-east of Galway and 150 km from Dublin, on the N5.
How big is Bellanagare?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 522 buildings, 2 named streets and 3 named places, which by building count makes it the 20th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.
What is there to see in Bellanagare?
58 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Bellanagare Castle, Drummin Fort and Cloonshanville High Cross.
How do you get to Bellanagare?
3 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann 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.
522
buildings on the model
2
named streets
3
named places
11
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 Q4082090). 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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