Foxford
Béal Easa (Irish) | |
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Town | |
 Market Square | |
  Foxford Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 53°58′52″N 9°06′50″W / 53.981°N 9.114°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Connacht |
| County | Mayo |
| Elevation | 12 m (39 ft) |
| Population | 1,315 |
| Irish Grid Reference | G265040 |
Foxford (Irish: Béal Easa, meaning 'mouth of the waterfall')[2] is a town 16 km south of Ballina in County Mayo, Ireland. It stands on the N26 national primary route from Swinford to Ballina and has a railway station served by trains between Manulla Junction and Ballina.
Foxford lies on the River Moy, a salmon-fishing river, close to Lough Conn and Lough Cullin and between the Nephin and Ox Mountains. The Foxford Way is an 86-km waymarked tourist trail that circles Foxford, taking in the Ox Mountains, bogland, archeological sites, lakeshores and river banks.
Agnes Bernard founded a convent and started a water-powered woollen mill here in 1892.[3] The Foxford Woollen Mills are known for producing characteristic wool blankets.
- ^ "Census 2016 Sapmap Area: Settlements Foxford". Central Statistics Office (Ireland). Archived from the original on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
- ^ "Béal Easa/Foxford". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Government of Ireland. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ Agnes Morrogh Bernard, Towns Villages, Retrieved 6 June 2017