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About Athenry

Athenry, Baile Átha an Rí in Irish, is a town in County Galway, 20 km east of Galway. It stands on the M17, M18 and M6. The map gives it 2,556 buildings and 67 named streets, with 160 places named on them in 81 kinds, and 80 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 9th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
20 km east of Galway, 165 km from Dublin
Position
53.2990° N, 8.7466° W, 47 m above sea level
Area
2.74 km²
Roads
M17, M18, M6, R347, R348, L3107, L3124 and L7159
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
2,556 buildings, 67 streets, 160 named places in 81 kinds
Athenry Abbey
Athenry Abbey·Victor walsh photography, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Bridge Street, Athenry
Bridge Street, Athenry·macaco99, CC BY 3.0 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 80 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M17, M18, M6, R347, R348, L3107, L3124 and L7159 running through Athenry. 6 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 1 line calls at 1 stop here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

8 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Athenry?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 20 km east of Galway and 165 km from Dublin, on the M17, M18 and M6.
How big is Athenry?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,556 buildings, 67 named streets and 160 named places, which by building count makes it the 9th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Athenry?
80 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Heritage Center, Amicita and The Twelve Apostles.
How do you get to Athenry?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop here in the published timetable, run by 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.
2,556
buildings on the model
67
named streets
160
named places
81
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 Q755389). 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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