Castlebar

British  

/ ˌkɑːsəlˈbɑː /

noun

1. the county town of Co Mayo, Republic of Ireland; site of the battle (1798) between the French and British known as Castlebar Races. Pop: 11 371 (2002)

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Example Sentences

She’d taken the train in that morning from Castlebar, a town on the other side of Ireland where she lives with her husband, John Prasifka.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2021

Eventually, she became the director of the Linenhall, a community arts center in Castlebar.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018

There, he played for the Castlebar Mitchels and won county championships in 1951 and 1952.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2018

There were some 300 at a meeting in Castlebar, Co Mayo on 22 April, at which the referendum was described as a “defining moment for our society”.

From The Guardian • May 13, 2018

Corny Delany is the amiable proprietor of a hotel in the neighbourhood of Castlebar, where his habitual courtesy and amenity are as conspicuous as of yore.

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James