About Ballinafad
Ballinafad, Béal an Átha Fada in Irish, is a village in County Sligo, 96 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the N4. The map gives it 415 buildings and 1 named street, with 3 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 139 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 27th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.
- Where
- 96 km north-east of Galway, 156 km from Dublin
- Position
- 54.0273° N, 8.3343° W, 90 m above sea level
- Roads
- N4
- Governed
- Sligo County Council, in the province of Connacht
- On the model
- 415 buildings, 1 street, 3 named places in 18 kinds
Ballinafad in order
3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the 40th century to 1590. That is not a history of Ballinafad, 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.
- 1161Boyle AbbeyRingforts and sites · 6.5 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
- 1590Ballinafad CastleCastles · 170 m from the centre · national monument of Ireland
- the 40th centuryCarrowkeel neolithic siteRingforts and sites · 4.4 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
County Sligo 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.
- Ballinafad Castle170 mCastles
- Loughangrania2.9 kmLakes
- Carricknahorna East2.9 kmHills
- Loughankedy3.2 kmLakes
- Lough Key Viewing Bay3.4 kmViewpoints
- Lough Arrow3.4 kmLakes
- Cairn P3.5 kmRingforts and sites
- Cairn N3.6 kmRingforts and sites
Getting around
The map records the N4 running through Ballinafad.
1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.
The map records no school inside the settlement.
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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 (item Q1863414). 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.