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About Baile na hAbhann

Baile na hAbhann is a village in County Galway, 30 km west of Galway. The map gives it 672 buildings and 4 named streets, with 20 places named on them in 17 kinds, and 117 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 32th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
30 km west of Galway, 216 km from Dublin
Position
53.2409° N, 9.5025° W, 9 m above sea level
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
672 buildings, 4 streets, 20 named places in 17 kinds
Lane down to Galway Bay
Lane down to Galway Bay·N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Church at Cartron
Church at Cartron·N Chadwick, 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 117 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

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

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Náisiúnta Cholmcille na Tulaí.

Questions people ask

Where is Baile na hAbhann?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 30 km west of Galway and 216 km from Dublin.
How big is Baile na hAbhann?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 672 buildings, 4 named streets and 20 named places, which by building count makes it the 32th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Baile na hAbhann?
117 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Loch na Tulaí, Loch Uachtair na Tulaí and Loch an Chraoibhín.
How do you get to Baile na hAbhann?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
672
buildings on the model
4
named streets
20
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 (item Q803785). 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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