Castlebar

Castlebar (Irish: Caisleán an Bharraigh) is the county town of County Mayo, Ireland. A campus of Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology and the Country Life section of the National Museum of Ireland are two important local amenities. The town is connected by railway to Dublin and the neighbouring Mayo towns of Westport and Ballina.

The town developed as a settlement around the De Barra castle in the 11th century and was later the site of an English garrison. A military barracks operates in the town to this day. Not so surprising then that armed conflict should be the centrepiece of the town's historical heritage. A routing of the English garrison in the town during the failed Irish Rebellion of 1798 aided by French forces under the command of List of towns in the Republic of Ireland

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