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About Spanish Point

Spanish Point, Rinn na Spáinneach in Irish, is a village in County Clare, 54 km south-west of Galway. It stands on the N67 and R482. The map gives it 223 buildings and 3 named streets, with 13 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 61 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 32th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Where
54 km south-west of Galway, 219 km from Dublin
Position
52.8457° N, 9.4374° W, 20 m above sea level
Roads
N67 and R482
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
223 buildings, 3 streets, 13 named places in 18 kinds
A view of Spanish Point.
A view of Spanish Point.·GenesisNZ, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 61 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N67 and R482 running through Spanish Point. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 3 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 Spanish Point?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 54 km south-west of Galway and 219 km from Dublin, on the N67 and R482.
How big is Spanish Point?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 223 buildings, 3 named streets and 13 named places, which by building count makes it the 32th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.
What is there to see in Spanish Point?
61 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Spanish Point, Spanish Point Beach and Lissanure.
How do you get to Spanish Point?
2 bus and train lines call at 3 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.
223
buildings on the model
3
named streets
13
named places
18
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 Q2471318). 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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