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Westmeath
County Westmeath · Leinster

About Ballymore

Ballymore, An Baile Mór in Irish, is a village in County Westmeath, 94 km east of Galway. It stands on the R390 and L1240. The map gives it 354 buildings and 9 named streets, with 13 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 65 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 19th largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.

Where
94 km east of Galway, 95 km from Dublin
Position
53.4907° N, 7.6739° W, 128 m above sea level
Roads
R390 and L1240
Governed
Westmeath County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
354 buildings, 9 streets, 13 named places in 21 kinds
Castles of Leinster: Ballymore, Westmeath (2)
Castles of Leinster: Ballymore, Westmeath (2)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Leinster: Ballymore, Westmeath (1)
Castles of Leinster: Ballymore, Westmeath (1)·Mike Searle, 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 65 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R390 and L1240 running through Ballymore.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Eoin Naofa, Ballymore.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballymore?
In County Westmeath, in the province of Leinster, 94 km east of Galway and 95 km from Dublin, on the R390 and L1240.
How big is Ballymore?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 354 buildings, 9 named streets and 13 named places, which by building count makes it the 19th largest of the 38 settlements this site covers in County Westmeath.
What is there to see in Ballymore?
65 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Corran Island, Lough Sewdy and Sunday Well.
How do you get to Ballymore?
3 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Allen's Bus Hire, Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Longford Westmeath Roscommon.
Has County Westmeath grown or shrunk?
The census counted 141,300 people in the county in 1841 and 96,221 in 2022.
354
buildings on the model
9
named streets
13
named places
21
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 Q4076766). 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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