Ballynacarrow | |
Native Name: | Irish: Baile na Cora |
Native Name Lang: | ga |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Ireland |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Ireland |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Ireland |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Connacht |
Subdivision Type3: | County |
Subdivision Name3: | County Sligo |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population: | 202 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Coordinates: | 54.1338°N -8.5612°W |
Elevation M: | 64 |
Blank Name: | Irish Grid Reference |
Ballynacarrow, locally Ballinacarrow,[2] is a village in County Sligo, Ireland. It is located approximately 19km (12miles) south-west of Sligo town. The Temple House estate is south of the village.
Ballynacarrow was designated as a census town by the Central Statistics Office for the first time in the 2016 census,[3] at which time it had a population of 202 people.[1]
Ballynacarrow is on the N17 Galway to Collooney road. The village is a stop on the Bus Éireann Galway to Derry Expressway route 64.[4]
The Irish-American orator and politician Bourke Cockran was born in Ballynacarrow in 1854.[5]