Foxford
Sign in to saveFoxford () is a town 16 km south of Ballina in County Mayo, Ireland. It is on the N26 road between Swinford and Ballina and has a railway station served by trains between Manulla Junction and Ballina.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Foxford is referenced by 222 other articles, and connects out to Republic of Ireland, Buenos Aires and Irish.
It sits within the topics Towns and villages in County Mayo and Use Hiberno-English from July 2015.
Its subject is documented across 16 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Region
- Connacht
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 1,315
- Timezone
- Europe/Dublin
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.name
- Foxford
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ga
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Foxford, Church of Ireland church.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Market Square
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ireland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Ireland
- Settlement.blank_name_sec1
- Irish Grid Reference
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Connacht
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Mayo
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 12
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2016
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- Foxford
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Mayo
- Elevation
- 12
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Foxford, Church of Ireland church.jpg
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- Commons category
- Foxford
- Irish Grid Reference
- G265040
- historic county
- County Mayo
- native label
- Béal Easa
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Transport
- Road
- Rail
- Notable people
- See also
- External links
- References
Foxford () is a town 16 km south of Ballina in County Mayo, Ireland. It is on the N26 road between Swinford and Ballina and has a railway station served by trains between Manulla Junction and Ballina.
Foxford lies on the River Moy, a salmon-fishing river, close to Lough Conn and Lough Cullin and between the Nephin and Ox Mountains. The Foxford Way is an 86-km waymarked tourist trail that circles Foxford, taking in the Ox Mountains, bogland, archeological sites, lakeshores and river banks.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Foxford” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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