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County Westmeath · Leinster

About Ballinahown

Ballinahown is a village in County Westmeath, 80 km east of Galway. The map gives it 275 buildings and 2 named streets, with 8 places named on them in 26 kinds, and 79 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 23th largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.

Where
80 km east of Galway, 105 km from Dublin
Position
53.3504° N, 7.8490° W, 128 m above sea level
Governed
Westmeath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
275 buildings, 2 streets, 8 named places in 26 kinds
Entering the village of Ballynahown on the N62
Entering the village of Ballynahown on the N62·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
View south along the N62 a mile or so north of Ballynahown
View south along the N62 a mile or so north of Ballynahown·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Westmeath 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.

141,30052,86196,22118412022

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 79 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Ballinahown; the roads it does record are local.

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: Ballinahown National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballinahown?
In County Westmeath, in the province of Leinster, 80 km east of Galway and 105 km from Dublin.
How big is Ballinahown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 275 buildings, 2 named streets and 8 named places, which by building count makes it the 23th largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.
What is there to see in Ballinahown?
79 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ballinahown Playground and Park, Eskir or Doon Castle and St. Menaghan's Well.
How do you get to Ballinahown?
3 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, TFI Local Link Laois Offaly and Westlink Coaches.
Has County Westmeath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 141,300 people in the county in 1841 and 96,221 in 2022.
275
buildings on the model
2
named streets
8
named places
26
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 Q4076778). 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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