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The 3D model of Ballinasloe: every building standing up, with the shops and services pinned

Ballinasloe, street by street

The ford of the crowds on the Suck, a castle, a canal that carried Guinness west, and the oldest horse fair in Europe every October.

Ballinasloe is a town of 6,597 people, 55 km east of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 3,496 buildings stands on the map above, and 187 shops, cafés, schools, churches and services have a page each, with the street, the hours where recorded, the nearest bus stop and car park, and a plan of the streets around it. Everything comes from open map data and says so.

Today
Weather in Ballinasloe

Live forecast for the centre, hour by hour and the week ahead.

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Ballinasloe

55 km from Galway, 76 km from Knock, 6 bus stops, 2 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

The fair in October, the marina on the Suck, Clontuskert Abbey, the Aughrim battle centre, the Famine park and the Hymany Way.

Since bronze age
The history of Ballinasloe

The ford of the crowds, the castle, de Burgh, the fair, the canal, the railway, the workhouse, the floods of 2009.

Facts
About the town

Population 6,597 at the 2022 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Ballinasloe

11 restaurants, 8 pubs, 16 shops, 2 hairdressers and beauty and 6 supermarkets and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the centre first.

Food and drink
Shops
Health
Services
Motoring
Community
Sport and leisure
Places to stay
Things to see
Other

All 70 kinds of place

Guides to Ballinasloe

All 6 guides
Getting around
Ballinasloe railway station

Ballinasloe station, a gabled Tudor-style building by George Wilkinson opened on 1 August 1851, is on the Dublin to Galway line; change…

Bronze sculpture Horse and Handler in reference to the Ballinasloe Horse Fair by the sculptor James McCarthy, erected at St Michael's Square in May 2003.
Festival
The Ballinasloe Horse Fair

The Ballinasloe Horse Fair, Europe's oldest and largest, runs for seven days from the Sunday before the first Tuesday in October: horses…

West view of St. Michael's Church.
Church
St Michael's Church, Ballinasloe

St Michael's, the large limestone Catholic church at the south end of St Michael's Square in Ballinasloe, was designed by J. J. McCarthy…

Garbally College
Education
Garbally College

St Joseph's College, Garbally Park, was Ballinasloe's Catholic boys' secondary school in the former seat of the Earls of Clancarty:…

Garbally College
Transport
Woodlawn and Attymon railway stations

Woodlawn, opened on 1 August 1858 beside a level crossing on the R359, and Attymon, opened as a junction on 1 December 1890, are the two…

Clontuskert Abbey
Abbey
Clontuskert Abbey

Clontuskert Abbey, the Priory of St Mary of Clontuskert-Hy-Many, 5 km south of Ballinasloe by the Ballinure River, stands on a monastery…

Main Street and Society Street in an Eason postcard view
Main Street and Society Street in an Eason postcard view
National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
Then
Main Street today, looking north-east
Main Street today, looking north-east
Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Now
Food and drink

Where to eat in Ballinasloe

19 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 14 of them within 300 m of the centre. 3 have hours on record.

  1. Corner House BarPubs · Main Street
  2. FusionRestaurants · Society Street
  3. The Bread BasketRestaurants · St. Michael's Square
  4. Good TasteTakeaways · Dunlo Street
  5. Joe's BarPubs · Society Street
  6. Ryan'sPubs · Society Street
  7. Nico'sTakeaways · Dunlo Street
  8. The Dunlo TavernPubs · Dunlo Street

Restaurants · Cafés · Takeaways · Pubs

Plan of Ballinasloe with every place to eat marked

Every place to eat and drink as a pin; tap one for its page and directions.

Street by street

All 37 streets
  1. Society Street
    regional road R348 · 412 m
    17 places
  2. Dunlo Street
    regional road R904 · 286 m
    16 places
  3. Main Street
    regional road R348 · 184 m
    11 places
  4. St. Michael's Square
    minor road · 295 m
    8 places
  5. Station Road
    regional road R358 · 699 m
    3 places
  6. Dunlo Hill
    regional road R446 · 358 m
    2 places
  7. John Dunne Avenue
    residential street · 112 m
    2 places
  8. Slí Na hAbhainn
    regional road R446 · 546 m
    2 places
  9. Ard Mhuire
    residential street · 754 m
    1 place
  10. Civic Offices
    service road · 51 m
    1 place

Things to see around Ballinasloe

The Fair Green
The Fair Green
Robert French, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
St Michael's
St Michael's
No machine-readable author provided. Tournesol assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Suck
The Suck
Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 41 ringforts and ancient sites and 4 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. West WoodWoods · 3.2 km
  2. Caher HouseRuins · 4.3 km
  3. Clontuskert AbbeyAbbeys · 5.3 km
  4. Lyons' LoughLakes · 6.2 km
  5. Fairfield LoughLakes · 6.2 km
  6. Coololla LoughLakes · 6.3 km
  7. Cranberry LoughLakes · 6.4 km
  8. Cooke's LoughLakes · 6.4 km
  9. Killure CastleCastles · 6.5 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells · Hotels

Ballinasloe in pictures

Photographs of the place and the country around it, each from an open archive and credited to the person who took it.

View of the Main Street, looking north-east.
View of the Main Street, looking north-east.
Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Today we have a magnificent Fair Green in Ballinasloe which if my Irish serves me right translates as "The…
Today we have a magnificent Fair Green in Ballinasloe which if my Irish serves me right translates as "The…
Robert French, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
Nave of St. Michael's Church, looking south-east. The painting above the chancel arch depicts the Trinity…
Nave of St. Michael's Church, looking south-east. The painting above the chancel arch depicts the Trinity…
Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
An Eason image of Main Street, Ballinasloe in Co. Galway on a quiet day. Lots of pedestrians about but no…
An Eason image of Main Street, Ballinasloe in Co. Galway on a quiet day. Lots of pedestrians about but no…
National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
The River Suck near Ballinasloe
The River Suck near Ballinasloe
Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Carlton Shearwater Hotel Ballinasloe
Carlton Shearwater Hotel Ballinasloe
Martin Dawes, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ballinasloe Station
Ballinasloe Station
Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Old crane at Ballinasloe station
Old crane at Ballinasloe station
Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Steps down to Town Parks, Ballinasloe
Steps down to Town Parks, Ballinasloe
Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Church in Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland. Photo by user:Tournesol
Church in Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland. Photo by user:Tournesol
No machine-readable author provided. Tournesol assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Ballinasloe?
Ballinasloe is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 55 km east of Galway city and 130 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Ballinasloe?
6,597 people at the 2022 census, up from 6,662 in 2016.
How far is Ballinasloe from Galway?
55 km in a straight line from the centre to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Ballinasloe famous for?
The October horse fair, reputedly the oldest in Europe and three centuries old in 2022; the Grand Canal terminus that brought Guinness west from 1828; the limestone of its buildings; and Supermac's, which opened its first restaurant here in 1978.
What is the history of Ballinasloe?
A ford on the Suck settled since the Bronze Age, a castle from the twelfth century, a town founded by Richard de Burgh in the early 1200s, the fair from the 1700s, the canal in 1828, the railway in 1851, the asylum and the workhouse, and the bypass of 2009.
What is the weather like in Ballinasloe today?
The weather page shows the live forecast for the centre, hour by hour for the next day and day by day for the week.

How the model is built

The buildings are OpenStreetMap footprints, read on 2026-09-18, stood up to the height the map records or a plain two storeys where it records none. Streets, water and the base map come from the same project through OpenFreeMap. Places are the named shops, services and public buildings on the map; each has its own page.

A building takes the colour of the kind of place inside it: restaurants in red, pharmacies in green, schools in yellow. Nothing is invented to fill a gap: a missing fact is shown as missing, with a link to add it to the map. More about the model.