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About Fanore

Fanore, Fánóir in Irish, is a village in County Clare, 24 km south-west of Galway. It stands on the R477. The map gives it 505 buildings and 1 named street, with 19 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 77 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 19th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Where
24 km south-west of Galway, 203 km from Dublin
Position
53.1165° N, 9.2841° W, 20 m above sea level
Roads
R477
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
505 buildings, 1 street, 19 named places in 23 kinds
Fanore beach
Fanore beach·Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Beach at Fanore
Beach at Fanore·Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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 77 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R477 running through Fanore. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Fanore National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Fanore?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 24 km south-west of Galway and 203 km from Dublin, on the R477.
How big is Fanore?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 505 buildings, 1 named street and 19 named places, which by building count makes it the 19th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.
What is there to see in Fanore?
77 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Fanore to Ballyvaughan Trek, Fanore Heritage Trail and Fanore Beach Geopark Site.
How do you get to Fanore?
1 bus and train line calls at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by 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.
505
buildings on the model
1
named streets
19
named places
23
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 Q992874). 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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