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Extract from the Belmullet Travel Guides:
Heading on from Bangor along the R313 through bleak uninhabited bogland you'll come to
BELMULLET
(
Bal an Mhuirthead
, "mouth of the Mullet"), a functional little village, its streets perpetually mired from the mud of the bogs. Like most Irish towns, it's a planned settlement, founded as late as 1825 by the local landlord, William Carter, to "create a home market for produce that did not previously exist nearer than thirty miles by land". Its success was such that it eclipsed the older landlord village of Binghamstown (
An Geata Mr
), on the peninsula, which was deserted by the late...
read the whole Belmullet Travel Guides...
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