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Galway

Inside the county boundary

Things to do in County Galway

1,788 places worth visiting sit inside the County Galway boundary, across 84 towns and villages. Each is counted once here, under the town it is nearest to, which is not always the town it is in.

1,788
places to visit
84
towns and villages
84
settlements in the county

Everything the map records

120 places to explore, with photographs first. Find more on each town's page or browse by kind of place below.

120 places

Places to explore in pictures

More places to explore

By kind of place

Town by town

Questions people ask

How many things are there to do in County Galway?
The map records 1,788 places worth visiting inside the county boundary, spread over 84 towns and villages. That is how many the map holds, which is not how many there are: anything nobody has mapped is missing.
What counts as being in the county?
The County Galway boundary encloses it, taken from the OpenStreetMap administrative boundaries. That is a different question from which town is nearest, and this page answers only the first. 437 places near a County Galway town sit across a boundary and are not listed here.
Are these in any particular order?
Places with photographs appear first. Within each group, places are ordered by their nearest town and then by distance from its centre. This is not a popularity ranking.
Is there an admission charge?
This page does not say, because it does not know. The map records a fee on about one place in a hundred, which is far too few to build a list on. Each place links to whoever runs it.

Places, names and kinds are OpenStreetMap records. Which county encloses a place, which town it is nearest, and every distance here are this site’s own calculations from those records. Where a place carries a checked note, it names who said so and the day somebody read it.