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About Ballyvaughan

Ballyvaughan, Baile Uí Bheacháin in Irish, is a village in County Clare, 19 km south of Galway. The map gives it 611 buildings and 1 named street, with 46 places named on them in 33 kinds, and 121 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 14th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Where
19 km south of Galway, 194 km from Dublin
Position
53.1153° N, 9.1487° W, 5 m above sea level
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
611 buildings, 1 street, 46 named places in 33 kinds
Ballyvaughan community hall
Ballyvaughan community hall·Michael Dibb, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Church of St John, Ballyvaughan, Co Clare
Church of St John, Ballyvaughan, Co Clare·David Purchase, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Ballyvaughan in order

5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the tenth century to 1993. That is not a history of Ballyvaughan, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

the tenth century1993Caherconnell Stone FortBurren College of Art
The tenth century
The thirteenth century
  • the thirteenth centuryCorcomroe AbbeyAbbeys · 6.5 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The twentieth century

County Clare since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

286,39473,597127,93818412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 121 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Ballyvaughan; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

4 lines call at 7 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballyvaughan?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 19 km south of Galway and 194 km from Dublin.
How big is Ballyvaughan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 611 buildings, 1 named street and 46 named places, which by building count makes it the 14th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.
What is there to see in Ballyvaughan?
121 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ballyvaughan Community Playground, The Burren Way and Lúb Náisiúnta.
How do you get to Ballyvaughan?
4 bus and train lines call at 7 stops here in the published timetable, run by Burren and Cliffs Explorer, Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Limerick Clare.
Has County Clare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 286,394 people in the county in 1841 and 127,938 in 2022.
611
buildings on the model
1
named streets
46
named places
33
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q805457). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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