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About Milltown Malbay

Milltown Malbay, Sráid na Cathrach in Irish, is a town in County Clare, 52 km south-west of Galway, with 570 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the N67 and R474. The map gives it 636 buildings and 16 named streets, with 68 places named on them in 49 kinds, and 67 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 13th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Population
570 at the 2006 census
Where
52 km south-west of Galway, 217 km from Dublin
Position
52.8556° N, 9.4010° W, 20 m above sea level
Roads
N67 and R474
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
636 buildings, 16 streets, 68 named places in 49 kinds
Miltown Malbay - Main Street (N67) - Tom Malone's Pub & Market House
Miltown Malbay - Main Street (N67) - Tom Malone's Pub & Market House·Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Milltown Malbay - Main Street (N67) - Tom Mallone's Pub & Market House Estd 1863
Milltown Malbay - Main Street (N67) - Tom Mallone's Pub & Market House Estd 1863·Joseph Mischyshyn, 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 67 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N67 and R474 running through Milltown Malbay. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: St Joseph's National School Miltown Malbay and Rineen National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Milltown Malbay?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 52 km south-west of Galway and 217 km from Dublin, on the N67 and R474.
How big is Milltown Malbay?
570 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 636 buildings and 16 named streets.
What is there to see in Milltown Malbay?
67 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Music Makers of West Clare, Cloona Fort and Kilcorcoran Grave Yard.
How do you get to Milltown Malbay?
2 bus and train lines call at 7 stops here in the published timetable, run by Burren and Cliffs Explorer and Bus Éireann.
Has County Clare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 286,394 people in the county in 1841 and 127,938 in 2022.
636
buildings on the model
16
named streets
68
named places
49
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 Q1025567). 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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