Dorf · Co. Mayo
“Mouth of the ford” — the town at the mouth of the River Moy near Killala Bay, with the Ox Mountains to the east and the Nephin Mountains to the west, and the Bronze Age Dolmen of the Four Maols behind the station.
Ballina (Béal an Átha in Irish, meaning “mouth of the ford”) is a town in north County Mayo, Ireland. It lies at the mouth of the River Moy near Killala Bay, in the Moy valley and civil parish of Kilmoremoy, with the Ox Mountains to the east and the Nephin Mountains to the west. The town occupies two baronies — Tirawley on the west bank of the River Moy, and Tireragh, a barony within County Sligo, on its east banks. At the 2022 census, the population of Ballina was 10,556.
The Dolmen of the Four Maols is located on “Primrose Hill” behind Ballina railway station. This Bronze Age cist is sometimes dated to about 2,000 BCE and is locally known as the “Table of the Giants”. Legend suggests that the megalithic tomb is the burial place of the “Four Maols” — four brothers who murdered Ceallach, a 7th-century bishop of Kilmoremoy, and were hanged at Ardnaree. The dolmen is the town’s oldest monument: the stone, the hill and the legend, and the walk to it is the walk that starts behind the station.
Ballina sits at the mouth of the River Moy, where the river runs out to Killala Bay, and the two mountain ranges stand on either side of the town: the Ox to the east, the Nephins to the west. The town is the service centre for the Moy valley — the river, the bay and the mountains, and the walk through Ballina is the walk from the river to the station and up to the hill. The town works as the base for the whole of north Mayo: Foxford to the south, Killala to the north, and the two ranges on either side.
Ballina is at the mouth of the River Moy near Killala Bay, on the N59/N59 junction country; the Dolmen of the Four Maols is on Primrose Hill behind the railway station. The town works as the base for the Moy valley, the bay and the two mountain ranges — the river in the morning, the mountains in the afternoon.
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Ballina puts the river, the bay and the two mountain ranges all within a short drive — the dolmen is the bonus.
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