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About Ballymote

Ballymote, Baile an Mhóta in Irish, is a town in County Sligo, 97 km north of Galway. It stands on the R293, R295 and R296. The map gives it 3,202 buildings and 31 named streets, with 79 places named on them in 56 kinds, and 101 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the third largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.

Where
97 km north of Galway, 170 km from Dublin
Position
54.0885° N, 8.5155° W, 76 m above sea level
Roads
R293, R295, R296, L1502, L1503 and L1604
Governed
Sligo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
3,202 buildings, 31 streets, 79 named places in 56 kinds
VC30 Ballymote Station County Sligo
VC30 Ballymote Station County Sligo·D464-Darren Hall, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Breakfast condiments in the Dining Room - served on family silver.
Breakfast condiments in the Dining Room - served on family silver.·Sheila Sund from Salem, United States, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Ballymote in order

7 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the 40th century to 1864. That is not a history of Ballymote, 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.

the 40th century1864Carrowkeel neolithic siteChurch of the Immaculate Conception
The sixth century
The thirteenth century
  • 1300Ballymote CastleCastles · 290 m from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fifteenth century
The nineteenth century
The 40th century

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 101 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R293, R295, R296, L1502, L1503 and L1604 running through Ballymote.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 3 lines call at 5 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Corran College, Colaiste Muire and Scoil Mhuire gan Smal.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballymote?
In County Sligo, in the province of Connacht, 97 km north of Galway and 170 km from Dublin, on the R293, R295 and R296.
How big is Ballymote?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 3,202 buildings, 31 named streets and 79 named places, which by building count makes it the 3th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.
What is there to see in Ballymote?
101 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ballymote Abbey, Ballymote Castle and Brother Walfrid.
How do you get to Ballymote?
3 bus and train lines call at 5 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail and TFI Local Link Donegal Sligo Leitrim. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Sligo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 180,886 people in the county in 1841 and 70,198 in 2022.
3,202
buildings on the model
31
named streets
79
named places
56
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 Q1899651). 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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