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About Aughrim

Aughrim, Eachroim in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 49 km east of Galway. It stands on the M6 and R446. The map gives it 476 buildings and 3 named streets, with 21 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 73 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 49th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
49 km east of Galway, 137 km from Dublin
Position
53.3038° N, 8.3165° W, 115 m above sea level
Roads
M6 and R446
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
476 buildings, 3 streets, 21 named places in 18 kinds
Prehistoric goldware in the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street
Prehistoric goldware in the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street·Sailko, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Bridge, M6
Bridge, M6·N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Aughrim in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the twelfth century to 1858. That is not a history of Aughrim, 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 twelfth century1858Clontuskert AbbeyTrench Monument
The twelfth century
  • the twelfth centuryClontuskert AbbeyAbbeys · 7.1 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fifteenth century
  • 1414Kilconnell AbbeyAbbeys · 6.4 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
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 73 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M6 and R446 running through Aughrim.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: The Glebe National School and St, Catherine's NS.

Questions people ask

Where is Aughrim?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 49 km east of Galway and 137 km from Dublin, on the M6 and R446.
How big is Aughrim?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 476 buildings, 3 named streets and 21 named places, which by building count makes it the 49th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Aughrim?
73 things the map records in and around it, the closest being St Catherine's Well, Aughrim Park and Aughrim Playground.
How do you get to Aughrim?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Citylink.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
476
buildings on the model
3
named streets
21
named places
18
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 Q2642247). 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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