Location, Location, Location!

Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland.

How to get here
30 minutes drive from Westport, Co. Mayo is Knock International Airport at Charlestown, County Mayo providing a direct route from London Stanstead, Manchester and Birmingham in the UK, Germany, Switzerland and more recently New York and Boston.

Irish Rail operate three daily return train services from Dublin to Westport.

Alternatively, the ferry to any of the eastern seaboard ports in Ireland and a drive cross country will take you to the Westport.

About Westport


Westport is situated at the mouth of Clew Bay, beside the holy mountain of Croagh Patrick and in the heart of the West of Ireland. Westport is surrounded by many different types of scenery from rivers, to hills, plains, farmland, woods and forests, lakes and bogs.


Westport itself has built up estates, quiet alleys, historical buildings, modern architecture and a mix of old and new.


In other words you name it we have it. This wide variety means we can accommodate almost every production in one way or another and we have already built up an excellent reputation with film makers for our support and co-operation.


See how we can help you. Contact us today.

How we can help

The Westport Film Promotion sub-committee will help your production on a daily or even hourly basis right through your production here in our town.

We can help you with

• locations
• permissions and permits
• accommodation
• road and street closures
• extras
• liaison with police, businesses and the public
• publicity
• pre-production issues
• availability of council lands and property for filming
• storage
• vehicle hire
• location of local goods and services

Previous Productions in Westport

Feature Film Heart's Desire
RTÉ's Celebrities Go Wild!
TV3's Ireland Am (Live Broadcast)
RTE's About the House
Famine Ship (Documentary)
Guninnes Advert "Pat's Bar"
Calvin Klein Advert
Townlands "The seven wonders of Westport" (Documentary)
RTE comedy series "The Final Furlong"
History Channel's "Pirate Queen Grainne O'Malley" starring Lucy Lawless (Documentary)
Gaelforce Outdoor Adventure Competitions
TnaG's Carta Posta (Documentary)
TnG's Irish Gangsters (Documentary)
Feature Film "Return to the River"
TnaG's Treasure Hunt

About Westport

Westport, County Mayo is a designated Heritage Town and was recently awarded the prestigious National Tidy Towns title. The charming Quay area is just a few minutes form the town centre and possesses a unique character of its own with pubs, restaurants and hotels now occupying the old coastguard station and warehouses.

As you would expect of one of Ireland's premier tourist destinations, Westport boasts a wide variety of attractions. One of the few planned towns in Ireland, it was designed in the 18th Century by James Wyatt, with many outstanding features, most notably the beautiful and unique boulevard known as The Mall, running parallel to the Carrowbeg River.

The town's attractions include the famous Westport House & Country Estate, which is one of Ireland's top day visitor attractions and is featured in more detail on our website. A fine Georgian mansion, home of Lord Sligo.

Westport's proximity to Ireland's holy mountain, Croagh Patrick, and the shores of the ever tranquil Clew Bay make it a superb location for those wishing to combine wonderful scenery with the stories and legend of a remarkable history.

The Clew Bay and Croagh Patrick Heritage Centres are excellent sources of information on this history as is the National Museum of Ireland - County Life, which is situated just outside the nearby town of Castlebar.

Why film in Westport?

In April, 2004, 70 crew members and 35 extras took over the streets of Westport, turning heads, creating an electric buzz in the town and literally stopping traffic as they filmed ‘Pat’s Bar’, the second advert in the current campaign entitled ‘Knowing what matters’.

“Guinness were adamant that they would film to film the advertisement in a town, not a city. They wanted it to look real and wanted to take the practical limitations into account, it would be difficult to give the appearance of walking out of a pub and straight out of a town in a city. They were looking for the pied piper effect from the ad,”

Furthermore, the company were interested in filming in a picturesque town and after looking at a few, they decided that Westport was the obvious choice. Having spoken to local authorities in the town, including Peter Hynes, Director of Services with Westport Town Council, they felt that their decision came easy, as everyone they dealt with was extremely supportive. “It just makes everything a lot easier when there’s a welcoming mind set in a town and Mr Hynes certainly reflected that. It was a very positive environment to work in, even when we had to stop traffic, the Gardaí were so co-operative and the crew were all treated so well,”

Damien Devaney of WHPR, the Public Relations Company that dealt with the advertising campaign.

Westport welcomes film makers

Westport Town Council in co-operation with the Irish Film Board is welcoming film makers from all around the world to use the town as a location for their productions.

Westport has already featured as a location for several large scale films, advertisements and documentaries.

The town has also served as a base for production companies who are filming in the West.

Westport is 30 minutes from the International Airport at Knock, is serviced by rail from the capital Dublin and is on the National road route.

Westport is set in some of the most beautiful scenery in the world and is a Georgian Heritage Town though it has been used for filming as both a modern day city and a period town.

Contact us today to see how Westport Town Council can help your production.

Contact Us

Contact Us

Call Keith Martin on

00 353 86 0691182

086 0691182

councillorkeithmartin@gmail.com


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