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About Camus

Camus, Camas in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 35 km west of Galway. The map gives it 180 buildings and 0 named streets, with 6 places named on them in 8 kinds, and 170 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 72th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
35 km west of Galway, 218 km from Dublin
Position
53.3781° N, 9.5474° W, 54 m above sea level
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
180 buildings, 0 streets, 6 named places in 8 kinds
Connemara Bog Complex SPA
Connemara Bog Complex SPA·Z thomas, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
R336 passing Furnace Bridge Church
R336 passing Furnace Bridge Church·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 170 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

3 lines call at 4 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 Camus?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 35 km west of Galway and 218 km from Dublin.
How big is Camus?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 180 buildings, 0 named streets and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 72th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Camus?
170 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Loch an Mhianaigh, Loch na Foirnéise and Loch Sheanadh na Siongán.
How do you get to Camus?
3 bus and train lines call at 4 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.
180
buildings on the model
0
named streets
6
named places
8
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 Q3776872). 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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