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Westmeath
County Westmeath · Leinster

About Ballykeeran

Ballykeeran, Bealach Caorthainn in Irish, is a village in County Westmeath, 79 km east of Galway. It stands on the N55, R916 and L1475. The map gives it 715 buildings and 27 named streets, with 45 places named on them in 40 kinds, and 75 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 10th largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.

Where
79 km east of Galway, 108 km from Dublin
Position
53.4484° N, 7.8885° W, 56 m above sea level
Roads
N55, R916, L1475 and L5479
Governed
Westmeath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
715 buildings, 27 streets, 45 named places in 40 kinds
Ballaghkeeran Bay Lough Ree
Ballaghkeeran Bay Lough Ree·Jo and Steve Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Coosan Lough viewed from the east
Coosan Lough viewed from the east·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 75 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N55, R916, L1475 and L5479 running through Ballykeeran.

By bus or train

1 line calls 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: Cornamaddy Community National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballykeeran?
In County Westmeath, in the province of Leinster, 79 km east of Galway and 108 km from Dublin, on the N55, R916 and L1475.
How big is Ballykeeran?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 715 buildings, 27 named streets and 45 named places, which by building count makes it the 10th largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.
What is there to see in Ballykeeran?
75 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Balaghkeeran Bay, Temple's Island and Killinure Lough.
How do you get to Ballykeeran?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Westmeath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 141,300 people in the county in 1841 and 96,221 in 2022.
715
buildings on the model
27
named streets
45
named places
40
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 Q4076756). 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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