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About Attymon

Attymon, Áth Tíomáin in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 30 km east of Galway. The map gives it 116 buildings and 0 named streets, with 3 places named on them in 17 kinds, and 45 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 79th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
30 km east of Galway, 156 km from Dublin
Position
53.3211° N, 8.6090° W
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
116 buildings, 0 streets, 3 named places in 17 kinds
Railtour at Attymon station
Railtour at Attymon station·Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Barn near Attymon
Barn near Attymon·Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Attymon in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1241 to 1858. That is not a history of Attymon, 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.

12411858Athenry AbbeyTrench Monument
The thirteenth century
  • 1241Athenry AbbeyHistoric churches · 9.4 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fifteenth century
The nineteenth century

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 45 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

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

1 school or college on the map: Attymon National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Attymon?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 30 km east of Galway and 156 km from Dublin.
How big is Attymon?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 116 buildings, 0 named streets and 3 named places, which by building count makes it the 79th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Attymon?
45 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Derrydoo Lough, Wood Lough and Lough Tee.
How do you get to Attymon?
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.
116
buildings on the model
0
named streets
3
named places
17
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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