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About Carraroe

Carraroe, An Cheathrú Rua in Irish, is a town in County Galway, 37 km west of Galway. The map gives it 2,181 buildings and 14 named streets, with 68 places named on them in 37 kinds, and 128 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 12th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Population
725, as the map records it
Where
37 km west of Galway, 222 km from Dublin
Position
53.2634° N, 9.5997° W, 1 m above sea level
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
2,181 buildings, 14 streets, 68 named places in 37 kinds
Carraroe church - Seipeal Mhic Dara
Carraroe church - Seipeal Mhic Dara·Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Quay on the NE side of the Carraroe peninsula
Quay on the NE side of the Carraroe peninsula·Gordon Hatton, 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 128 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

4 lines call at 5 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Scoil Mhic Dara, Scoil Chuimsitheach Chiaráin and Tí Nan Dooley.

Questions people ask

Where is Carraroe?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 37 km west of Galway and 222 km from Dublin.
How big is Carraroe?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,181 buildings, 14 named streets and 68 named places, which by building count makes it the 12th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Carraroe?
128 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lough Scalpdonnell, Loch na Naomh and Cnoc an Phobail.
How do you get to Carraroe?
4 bus and train lines call at 5 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Island Ferries Teoranta 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.
2,181
buildings on the model
14
named streets
68
named places
37
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 Q482400). 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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