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About Carna

Carna is a village in County Galway, 53 km west of Galway. It stands on the R340. The map gives it 356 buildings and 2 named streets, with 25 places named on them in 25 kinds, and 120 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 60th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
53 km west of Galway, 237 km from Dublin
Position
53.3248° N, 9.8357° W, 4 m above sea level
Roads
R340
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
356 buildings, 2 streets, 25 named places in 25 kinds
Carna view I (circa 1995)
Carna view I (circa 1995)·buzzard525, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Carna view II (circa 1995)
Carna view II (circa 1995)·buzzard525, CC BY 3.0 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 120 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R340 running through Carna.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Scoil Carna and Coláiste Sheosaimh.

Questions people ask

Where is Carna?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 53 km west of Galway and 237 km from Dublin, on the R340.
How big is Carna?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 356 buildings, 2 named streets and 25 named places, which by building count makes it the 60th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Carna?
120 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Loch an Ghearraidh, Loch an tSrutháin Dheirg and Loch an Chaoráin.
How do you get to Carna?
2 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.
356
buildings on the model
2
named streets
25
named places
25
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 Q3756411). 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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