Discover Belmullet
The capital of Erris, where two bays meet and the Atlantic does the rest
What's On
Upcoming events and things happening in Belmullet
Blacksod D-Day Commemoration
RecurringJune commemoration at Blacksod of the lighthouse weather forecast that delayed the D-Day landings.
Féile Iorrais (Erris International Folk Arts Festival)
RecurringErris folk arts festival celebrating traditional music, dance, piping and crafts.
Belmullet Festival (Féile Bhéal an Mhuirthead)
RecurringThe town's week-long summer community festival in August, with music, heritage days and a fair day.
Belmullet Right Now
Belmullet weather is Atlantic weather at its most honest: mild, very windy and changeable, with squalls and bright spells trading places by the minute. This is one of the windiest spots in the country, so pack a proper windproof layer as well as a waterproof, mind your footing on the cliffs and piers, and treat a calm hour on the Mullet as the gift it is.
🌊 Tides
Belmullet Harbour
Heights relative to chart datum
The edge of the parish, the edge of Europe
Erris is the kind of place you have to mean to get to. Belmullet is the only town of any size for miles, the service hub for a peninsula of small townlands, Gaeltacht villages, and bog that runs out to the Atlantic. From here the Mullet stretches south, a long low arm of machair grassland and pale sand, with Blacksod Bay sheltered on one side and the open ocean battering the other.
The town itself was laid out in the 1820s on land owned by William Henry Carter, with a canal cut between the two bays so that boats could pass without rounding the headland. The Famine hit Erris savagely, and the canal works dragged on through those years. What survives now is a working town with a strong Irish-language tradition, a serious GAA streak, and an outdoors offer that punches far above its size.
The coastline of the Mullet Peninsula near Belmullet, County Mayo, with Atlantic surf breaking on a sandy strand
Where To Eat
From fine dining seafood to fish and chips by the harbour
Restaurant
Talbot's Seafood Bar
Talbot's Seafood Bar
Busy hotel seafood bar working with fish landed by local Erris boats.
The Western Strands
Long-running family pub and restaurant on Main Street, also a base for watersports.
Restaurant
McDonnell's Bar
McDonnell's Bar
Characterful Erris pub, established 1942, that doubles as the bus stop and undertaker.