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Linnenhall Street, Castlebar, in County Mayo

Castlebar Castlebar is the county town of County Mayo. It is in the middle of the county and is its largest town by population. This was a boom-town of the late 1990s, the population rising by one-third in six years, though this growth has slowed in recent years. The name of the town comes from the castle built in 1235. A campus of Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology and the Country Life section of the National Museum of Ireland are two important local amenities. (Read more)