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About Ballysadare

Ballysadare, Baile Easa Dara in Irish, is a village in County Sligo, 110 km north of Galway. It stands on the N4, N59 and L3604. The map gives it 1,476 buildings and 21 named streets, with 23 places named on them in 30 kinds, and 186 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 7th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.

Where
110 km north of Galway, 176 km from Dublin
Position
54.2099° N, 8.5093° W, 55 m above sea level
Roads
N4, N59, L3604 and L3608
Governed
Sligo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
1,476 buildings, 21 streets, 23 named places in 30 kinds
Ballysadare Bridge
Ballysadare Bridge·Sparkimarke - Mark Spence, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
20120820 32 Ireland - Co. Sligo - Ballisadare
20120820 32 Ireland - Co. Sligo - Ballisadare·Sjaak Kempe from Groningen, The Netherlands, CC BY 2.0 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 186 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N4, N59, L3604 and L3608 running through Ballysadare.

By bus or train

7 lines call at 10 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Scoil Náisiúnta Eoin Naofa and St. Marys College.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballysadare?
In County Sligo, in the province of Connacht, 110 km north of Galway and 176 km from Dublin, on the N4, N59 and L3604.
How big is Ballysadare?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,476 buildings, 21 named streets and 23 named places, which by building count makes it the 7th largest of the 30 settlements this site covers in County Sligo.
What is there to see in Ballysadare?
186 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Saint Fechin's Church, Spink and Loughnambraher.
How do you get to Ballysadare?
7 bus and train lines call at 10 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, TFI Local Link Donegal Sligo Leitrim and Treacy Coaches.
Has County Sligo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 180,886 people in the county in 1841 and 70,198 in 2022.
1,476
buildings on the model
21
named streets
23
named places
30
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 Q2577954). 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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