class="apple-converted-space"> Ireland. It is in the middle of the
county and is its largest town by population. Castlebar's population boomed in
the late 1990s, rising by one-third in six years, though this growth has slowed
in recent years. A campus of Galway-Mayo
Institute of Technologyand the Country Life section of the National Museum of Ireland is two important local amenities. The
town is linked by railway to Dublin, Westport and Ballina.
The town has several villages around it, with Breaffy the most well known. The main route by
road is the N5. Its economy is
primarily service-based. The population of its urban area as of 2011 is 10,826.