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About Béal an Daingin

Béal an Daingin is a village in County Galway, 38 km west of Galway. It stands on the R374. The map gives it 552 buildings and 4 named streets, with 9 places named on them in 15 kinds, and 177 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 41th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
38 km west of Galway, 223 km from Dublin
Position
53.3136° N, 9.6175° W, 1 m above sea level
Roads
R374
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
552 buildings, 4 streets, 9 named places in 15 kinds
Coastal view [1]
Coastal view [1]·Michael Dibb, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Coastal view [2]
Coastal view [2]·Michael Dibb, 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 177 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R374 running through Béal an Daingin.

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

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Béal an Daingin?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 38 km west of Galway and 223 km from Dublin, on the R374.
How big is Béal an Daingin?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 552 buildings, 4 named streets and 9 named places, which by building count makes it the 41th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Béal an Daingin?
177 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Loch an Oileáinín, Loch an Ghadaí and Loch Fada.
How do you get to Béal an Daingin?
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.
552
buildings on the model
4
named streets
9
named places
15
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 Q2077218). 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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