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About Ardrahan

Ardrahan, Ard Raithin in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 21 km south-east of Galway. The map gives it 325 buildings and 0 named streets, with 18 places named on them in 27 kinds, and 100 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 64th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
21 km south-east of Galway, 171 km from Dublin
Position
53.1568° N, 8.8060° W, 29 m above sea level
Area
9.8 km²
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
325 buildings, 0 streets, 18 named places in 27 kinds
The centre of the village of Ardrahan, Co. Galway
The centre of the village of Ardrahan, Co. Galway·P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ardrahan railway station, County Galway (geograph 6347955)
Ardrahan railway station, County Galway (geograph 6347955)·Nigel Thompson, 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 100 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 3 lines call at 5 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Ardrahan National School, Labane.

Questions people ask

Where is Ardrahan?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 21 km south-east of Galway and 171 km from Dublin.
How big is Ardrahan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 325 buildings, 0 named streets and 18 named places, which by building count makes it the 64th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Ardrahan?
100 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lackan Ringfort, Tullira Castle and Ballymaquiff Castle.
How do you get to Ardrahan?
3 bus and train lines call at 5 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail. 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.
325
buildings on the model
0
named streets
18
named places
27
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 Q964659). 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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