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About Caltra

Caltra is a village in County Galway, 44 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the R358. The map gives it 611 buildings and 2 named streets, with 9 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 76 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 34th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
44 km north-east of Galway, 145 km from Dublin
Position
53.4355° N, 8.4370° W
Roads
R358
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
611 buildings, 2 streets, 9 named places in 18 kinds
Caltra, County Galway
Caltra, County Galway·Sarah777, public domain 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 76 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R358 running through Caltra.

By bus or train

2 lines call 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: Caltra National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Caltra?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 44 km north-east of Galway and 145 km from Dublin, on the R358.
How big is Caltra?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 611 buildings, 2 named streets and 9 named places, which by building count makes it the 34th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Caltra?
76 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Mountain Fort, Pollaneask Turlough and Crockballytoole Fort.
How do you get to Caltra?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Galway.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
611
buildings on the model
2
named streets
9
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. 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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