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Galway
County Galway · Connacht

About Galway

Galway, Gaillimh in Irish, is a city in County Galway, 74 km north-west of Limerick, with 83,456 people at the 2022 census. It stands on the N6, N59 and N84. The map gives it 24,203 buildings and 597 named streets, with 1,826 places named on them in 248 kinds, and 169 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Population
83,456 at the 2022 census
Where
74 km north-west of Limerick, 185 km from Dublin
Position
53.2744° N, 9.0491° W, 25 m above sea level
Area
53.43 km²
Roads
N6, N59, N84, R336, R337, R338, R339 and R863
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
Twinned with
Lorient, France, St. Louis, United States, Seattle, United States, Bradford, United Kingdom, Cambridge, United States, Chicago, United States, Aalborg, Denmark, Qingdao, People's Republic of China, Milwaukee, United States, Auckland, New Zealand, Moncton, Canada, Stirling, United Kingdom, Menlo Park, United States and Q22905, United Kingdom
Founded
1124
On the model
24,203 buildings, 597 streets, 1,826 named places in 248 kinds
Early light and reflections across the Claddagh Basin.
Early light and reflections across the Claddagh Basin.·Michael Deligan, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Blackrock Diving Tower at Salthill, with the bay beneath a glowing sky.
Blackrock Diving Tower at Salthill, with the bay beneath a glowing sky.·Michael Deligan, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Galway in order

27 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the thirteenth century to 2014. That is not a history of Galway, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

the thirteenth century2014Claregalway FriaryMary Mosque
The thirteenth century
  • the thirteenth centuryClaregalway FriaryAbbeys · 11 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fourteenth century
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first century

Population of Galway at each census

83,45675,52920112022

Census counts recorded on Wikidata for Galway (item Q129610).

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 169 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N6, N59, N84, R336, R337, R338, R339 and R863 running through Galway. 43 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 44 lines call at 374 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

43 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Galway?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 74 km north-west of Limerick and 185 km from Dublin, on the N6, N59 and N84.
How big is Galway?
83,456 people at the 2022 census. On the map it is 24,203 buildings and 597 named streets.
What is there to see in Galway?
169 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Padraic O'Conaire Statue, Kennedy Park Playground and The Browne Doorway.
How do you get to Galway?
44 bus and train lines call at 374 stops here in the published timetable, run by Burkesbus, Bus Feda and Bus Éireann. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
24,203
buildings on the model
597
named streets
1826
named places
248
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 Q129610). 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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