Belmullet

Béal an Mhuirthead, which means the "mouth of the mullet" is the Irish name of Belmullet a market town with a population of around 2000 lying on The Mullet Peninsula in the barony of Erris, County Mayo, in the west of Ireland. Belmullet has two beautiful bays, Blacksod Bay and Broadhaven Bay, joined by Carter's canal running through the town. In 1822 a coastguard station was built at what is now Belmullet town. In 1825 William Henry Carter, a local landlord and architect, decided to establish his own settlement and a new pier was built by the Fishery Board and Carter in 1826. W.H. Carter's stated objective was to "create a home market for produce that did not previously exist nearer than thirty miles by land" and his aim was to thrust the older village of Binghamstown ( An Geata Mór ), a village founded by the powerful Bingham family on the Mullet peninsula into a secondary position. Belmullet established a monthly cattle fair and this soon prospered. The town began to take trade from Binghamstown. The Bingham family fought back but their village was more or less deserted by the cattle traders by the late nineteenth century.
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