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Westport

Westport is an attractive town in on the west coast of Ireland, with a population of 6,900 in 2022. It was originally Cathair na Mart, "town of the beef cattle", a cattle-mart and trading port in an era when it was much easier to get around by sea than overland.
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  • Type: Town with 6,870 residents
  • Description: town in County Mayo, Ireland
  • Also known as: “Westport, County Mayo”
Photo: markwaters, CC BY 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Westport and Westport House.

Railway station
Photo: Siegele Roland, Public domain.
railway station serves the town of , , Ireland. The station is the terminus station on the Dublin to Rail service.

Photo: Laurel Lodged, CC0.
in Westport, , , is a Georgian country house, historically the family seat of the Marquess of Sligo and the Brownes. The house was designed by the architect Richard Cassels with later additions by Thomas Ivory and James Wyatt.

Theater building
Photo: LAS30a, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, formerly Westport Town Hall, is a community events venue in The Octagon, Westport, County Mayo, Ireland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aughagower and Fahy.

Village
Photo: Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0.
or Aghagower is a small village in rural in western . It is 6 km south-east of Westport. has around forty houses, a pub and a shop, with a clear view of from Reek View. is situated 5 km southeast of Westport.

Village
is a small village in , Ireland. It is approximately 7 kilometres north of Westport and has a national school and Montessori school. The local Catholic church is, together with , in the ecclesiastical parish of Kilmeena-Fahy. is situated 6 km north of Westport.

Westport

Latitude
53.8001° or 53° 48′ 0″ north
Longitude
-9.5202° or 9° 31′ 13″ west
Population
6,870
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IE WES
Open location code
9C5GRF2H+2W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 52244000
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2960970
Wiki­data ID
Q1017331
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Westport” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ويستبورت”
  • Asturian: “Westport”
  • Basque: “Westport”
  • Breton: “Cathair na Mart”
  • Breton: “Westport”
  • Bulgarian: “Уестпорт”
  • Catalan: “Westport”
  • Cebuano: “Westport”
  • Chinese: “威斯波特”
  • Chinese: “韋斯特波特”
  • Chinese: “韦斯特波特”
  • Czech: “Westport”
  • Danish: “Westport”
  • Dutch: “Westport”
  • Faroese: “Westport (Írland)”
  • Faroese: “Westport”
  • French: “Westport”
  • Galician: “Westport - Cathair na Mart”
  • Galician: “Westport”
  • Georgian: “უესტპორტი”
  • German: “Westport”
  • Indonesian: “Cathair na Mart”
  • Indonesian: “Westport, Republik Irlandia”
  • Irish: “Cahernamart”
  • Irish: “Cathair na Mart”
  • Italian: “Westport”
  • Japanese: “ウェストポート”
  • Korean: “웨스트포트”
  • Lithuanian: “Vestportas”
  • Maltese: “Westport”
  • Manx: “Caair ny Mart”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Westport”
  • Norwegian: “Westport”
  • Persian: “وستپورت، شهرستان مایو”
  • Persian: “وستپورت”
  • Polish: “Westport”
  • Portuguese: “Westport”
  • Russian: “Кахарь-на-Март”
  • Russian: “Уэстпорт”
  • Serbian: “Вестпорт (Ирска)”
  • Serbian: “Вестпорт”
  • Slovak: “Westport”
  • Slovenian: “Westport”
  • Spanish: “Westport”
  • Swedish: “Westport, Irland”
  • Swedish: “Westport”
  • Ukrainian: “Вестпорт (Ірландія)”
  • Urdu: “ویسٹپورت، کاؤنٹی میو”
  • Urdu: “ویسٹپورت”
  • “Westport”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Westport”. Photo: donnamarijne, CC BY-SA 2.0.