Ballycroy (Irish: Baile Chruaich[1] meaning "town of the stacks", either hay or turf) is a village in the civil parish of Kilcommon in County Mayo, Ireland.

[3][4] The ballroom used in the film still exists, albeit in a derelict condition, and is located at Doona Cross, west of the village.

[11] Prehistoric settlement is recorded with structures including a portal tomb near Claggan Hill[12] and a court cairn in the townland of Drumgallagh.

[13][14] A similar historic fort is mentioned in Lettra as extant during the era of Táin Bó Fliadhas.

[13] The people were described in the 19th century by Patrick Knight as continuing to maintain their Ulster dialect, intermarrying within their community.

William Hamilton Maxwell in Wild Sports of the West (1832) described the terrain as characterised by bogs, morasses, expansive waters, and grazing lands.

[19] In the village of Ballycroy there is a school, Garda station, two pubs,[20] a cemetery and the visitor centre for the Wild Nephin National Park.