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About Abbey

Abbey, An Mhainistir in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 48 km south-east of Galway. The map gives it 127 buildings and 0 named streets, with 4 places named on them in 13 kinds, and 52 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 77th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
48 km south-east of Galway, 145 km from Dublin
Position
53.1022° N, 8.3923° W
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
127 buildings, 0 streets, 4 named places in 13 kinds
Abbey Community Centre
Abbey Community Centre·Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Hynes, Abbey, Co. Galway
Hynes, Abbey, Co. Galway·P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Galway 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.

440,198148,340277,73718412022

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 52 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Abbey?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 48 km south-east of Galway and 145 km from Dublin.
How big is Abbey?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 127 buildings, 0 named streets and 4 named places, which by building count makes it the 77th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Abbey?
52 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Kilnalekin Abbey, Coolfin Castle and Lady's Well.
How do you get to Abbey?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
127
buildings on the model
0
named streets
4
named places
13
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. 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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