Charlestown Baile Chathail
Location
WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53°57′51″N 8°47′39″W / 53.9642, -8.7942
Irish Grid Reference G479019
Statistics
Province:	Connacht
County:	County Mayo
Elevation:	60 m
Population (2002)	675

Charlestown (Irish: Baile Chathail) is a village in County Mayo, Ireland. It is located at the intersection of two National Primary routes, the N17 and the N5. Bullet for locations in Ireland, displays location and not area. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The Global Positioning System (GPS) is currently the only fully functional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). ... The Irish national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Ireland. ... During late Gaelic and early historic times Ireland was divided into provinces to replace the earlier system of the tuatha. ... Statistics Area: 17,713. ... For much of its history, the island of Ireland was divided into 32 counties (Irish language contae or condae, pronounced IPA: ). Two historical counties, County Desmond and County Coleraine, no longer exist. ... Statistics Province: Connacht County Town: Castlebar Code: MO Area: 5,397 km² Population (2006) 123,648 Website: www. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... Masouleh village, Gilan Province, Iran. ... Statistics Province: Connacht County Town: Castlebar Code: MO Area: 5,397 km² Population (2006) 123,648 Website: www. ...

Charlestown was built in the middle of the Nineteenth Century, on the initiative of Lord Dillon's agent, Charles Strickland in adjoining Bellaghy in County Sligo. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... The title of Viscount Dillon was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1622. ... Charles Strickland, was the local agent and town planner in County Mayo for Lord Dillon. ... Bellaghy is a village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. ... Statistics Province: Connacht County Town: Sligo Code: SO Area: 1,836 km² Population (2006) 60,863 Website: www. ...

The town was the subject of a serialised social commentary in the Irish Times by John Healy. This was later published as Death Of An Irish Town, and later republished as No One Shouted Stop!. Written in 1967, when Ireland was in the middle of a 60 year economic depression, was highly critical of government policies towards rural areas, and took Charlestown as an example solely because it was the town of the author's birth. Social commentary is the act of expressing an opinion on the nature of society. ... The Irish Times is Irelands newspaper of record, launched in the late 1850s. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... In economics, a depression is a term commonly used for a sustained downturn in the economy. ...

The town achieved a major sporting coup when the local Gaelic Football team Charlestown Sarsfields reached the All Ireland club semi-final in 2002, losing out on a final spot by a single point.

Trains ran through Charlestown from 1895 through 1963.The town had a station on the GS&W line from Claremorris to Collooney, part of the Western Railway Corridor 1906 Viceregal Commission rail map of Ireland Irelands extensive rail network was largely dismantled during the 20th Century Map of Irish rail network between 1925 and 1930 This article is part of the history of rail transport by country series The history of rail transport in Ireland began only... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Collooney (Cúil Mhuine in Irish) is a town in County Sligo, Ireland. ... Map of the West of Ireland, showing the Western Rail Corridor and ex-GSWR line south of Limerick in green, other ex-MGWR lines are in red. ...

See also

• List of towns in the Republic of Ireland