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Binghamstown · Co. Mayo

Where the Great Gate Guarded Mayo's First Planned Village

The year 1796 marked the birth of one of Ireland's most ambitious colonial settlement experiments when Major Denis Bingham constructed Binghamstown House and established the village of Binghamstown (An Geata Mór - pronounced "on GAT-a MORE") on the eastern shore of the Mullet …

Binghamstown is a small place in County Mayo. We're still writing the proper hub for it — pubs, food, walks, the things to skip — and it'll appear here when it does.