Ballaghaderreen
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Ballaghaderreen () is a town in County Roscommon, Ireland. It was part of County Mayo until 1899. It is in the north-west of the county, near the borders with counties Mayo and Sligo, just off the N5 road. The population was 2,387 in the 2022 census.
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- Locality
- Ballaghaderreen
- Region
- Connacht
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 1,822
- Timezone
- Europe/Dublin
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Ballaghaderreen
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ga
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Durkin's Hotel, Ballaghaderreen - geograph.org.uk - 674168.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Businesses on the square in Ballaghaderreen
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- Ireland
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- right
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- Location in Ireland
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Connacht
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- County Roscommon
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2022
- Settlement.population_total
- 2387
- Settlement.timezone1
- WET
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Ballaghaderreen () is a town in County Roscommon, Ireland. It was part of County Mayo until 1899. It is in the north-west of the county, near the borders with counties Mayo and Sligo, just off the N5 road. The population was 2,387 in the 2022 census.
== History == As of 1837, the town was recorded as having 1147 inhabitants in about 200 houses and as "rising in importance" as a post-town, being on the (then) new mail coach road from Ballina to Longford.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ballaghaderreen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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