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About Ballygawley

Ballygawley, Baile Uí Dhálaigh in Irish, is a village in County Sligo, 109 km north of Galway. It stands on the L3605. The map gives it 498 buildings and 2 named streets, with 11 places named on them in 24 kinds, and 171 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 21th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.

Where
109 km north of Galway, 171 km from Dublin
Position
54.1914° N, 8.4465° W
Roads
L3605
Governed
Sligo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
498 buildings, 2 streets, 11 named places in 24 kinds
Cloghagadaide stone row
Cloghagadaide stone row·A.-K. D., CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Trail marker along the Sligo Way in the townland of Ballydawley/ Ballygawley
Trail marker along the Sligo Way in the townland of Ballydawley/ Ballygawley·A.-K. D., CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

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.

180,88650,27570,19818412022

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 171 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L3605 running through Ballygawley.

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

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballygawley?
In County Sligo, in the province of Connacht, 109 km north of Galway and 171 km from Dublin, on the L3605.
How big is Ballygawley?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 498 buildings, 2 named streets and 11 named places, which by building count makes it the 21th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.
What is there to see in Ballygawley?
171 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Cloghagadaide, Lough Dargan and Giants Grave.
How do you get to Ballygawley?
3 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 Sligo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 180,886 people in the county in 1841 and 70,198 in 2022.
498
buildings on the model
2
named streets
11
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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