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About Barna

Barna, Bearna in Irish, is a town in County Galway, 7 km west of Galway, with 2,336 people at the 2022 census. It stands on the R336, R337 and L1011. The map gives it 7,849 buildings and 142 named streets, with 131 places named on them in 63 kinds, and 175 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the second largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Population
2,336 at the 2022 census
Where
7 km west of Galway, 192 km from Dublin
Position
53.2519° N, 9.1514° W
Area
1.89 km²
Roads
R336, R337, L1011, L1012, L1013, L1018, L13216 and L5001
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
7,849 buildings, 142 streets, 131 named places in 63 kinds
Barna Harbour
Barna Harbour·Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Quay, Barna
The Quay, Barna·Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Barna in order

5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1710 to 2006. That is not a history of Barna, 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.

17102006Eyre SquareGalway City Museum
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first 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 175 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R336, R337, L1011, L1012, L1013, L1018, L13216 and L5001 running through Barna.

By bus or train

6 lines call at 44 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

5 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Barna?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 7 km west of Galway and 192 km from Dublin, on the R336, R337 and L1011.
How big is Barna?
2,336 people at the 2022 census. On the map it is 7,849 buildings and 142 named streets.
What is there to see in Barna?
175 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Mags Boreen, Hen Harrier Reserve and Tobar Éanna.
How do you get to Barna?
6 bus and train lines call at 44 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, City Direct and Island Ferries Teoranta.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
7,849
buildings on the model
142
named streets
131
named places
63
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 Q2311794). 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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