Mountbellew, street by street

The Bellews' estate town on the N63, with a Tuesday market in a triangular square since the nineteenth century and the first agricultural college in Ireland.

Mountbellew is a town of 774 people, 42 km north-east of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 1,263 buildings stands on the map above, and 100 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 Mountbellew

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

Buses, roads, parking

Getting to Mountbellew

42 km from Galway, 53 km from Knock, 2 bus stops, 1 car park.

See and do

Things to do

The demesne walks and lake, the forge, the malt house, St Mary's, the Ballinlass memorial.

Since 18th and 19th centuries

The history of Mountbellew

The Bellews, the Brothers of 1818, the market, the college of 1904, five county titles.

Facts

About the town

Population 774 at the 2022 census, where it is, what is here.

Food and drink

Where to eat in Mountbellew

10 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 9 of them within 300 m of the Square. 3 have hours on record.

1. The Bridge BarPubs · The Square
2. RomaTakeaways · Mountbellew Bridge
3. Kelly’sCafés · The Square
4. The Square KitchenRestaurants · The Square
5. The HobTakeaways · R358
6. The HawthornePubs · The Square
7. Henry’sPubs · The Square
8. The Malt HousePubs · The Square

Restaurants · Cafés · Takeaways · Pubs

Open the 3D model

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

Street by street

All 14 streets

1. The Square

   minor road L7241 · 1.4 km
   7 places
2. Mountbellew Bridge

   national road N63 · 39 m
   2 places
3. Doire Glas

   residential street · 102 m
   1 place
4. The Meadows

   residential street · 272 m
   1 place
5. Treanrevagh

   residential street · 150 m
   1 place

Things to see around Mountbellew

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 21 ringforts and ancient sites and 9 holy wells on their own pages.

1. Mountbellew PlaygroundPlaygrounds · 424 m
2. Old ForgeMuseums · 623 m
3. Ballinlass Eviction MemorialMonuments · 3.7 km
4. Castle Bellew HouseHistoric houses · 4.1 km
5. Pollaneask TurloughLakes · 4.8 km
6. Enda Colleran MemorialMonuments · 4.8 km
7. Annagh LoughLakes · 5.3 km
8. Lough NalareaghLakes · 5.3 km
9. Moylough CastleCastles · 5.6 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells

Mountbellew in pictures

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