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About Castlegar

Castlegar, An Caisleán Gearr in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 4 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the N6, N83 and N84. The map gives it 4,234 buildings and 91 named streets, with 296 places named on them in 109 kinds, and 161 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 5th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
4 km north-east of Galway, 183 km from Dublin
Position
53.3019° N, 9.0194° W, 85 m above sea level
Roads
N6, N83, N84, R336, R339, R865, L50281 and L5033
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
4,234 buildings, 91 streets, 296 named places in 109 kinds
Castles of Connacht: Ballindooly, Galway
Castles of Connacht: Ballindooly, Galway·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Connacht: Castlegar, Galway (1)
Castles of Connacht: Castlegar, Galway (1)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castlegar in order

8 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1140 to 2015. That is not a history of Castlegar, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

11402015AbbeyHewlett Packard Enterprise
The twelfth century
  • 1140AbbeyAbbeys · 10 km from the centre
The thirteenth century
  • the thirteenth centuryClaregalway FriaryAbbeys · 7.1 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first century

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 161 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N6, N83, N84, R336, R339, R865, L50281 and L5033 running through Castlegar. 4 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

12 lines call at 53 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: GRETB Training Centre and Scoil Náisiúnta Cholmcille Naofa.

Questions people ask

Where is Castlegar?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 4 km north-east of Galway and 183 km from Dublin, on the N6, N83 and N84.
How big is Castlegar?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 4,234 buildings, 91 named streets and 296 named places, which by building count makes it the 5th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Castlegar?
161 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Castlegar Castle, Ballindooly Lough and Ballindooly Lough.
How do you get to Castlegar?
12 bus and train lines call at 53 stops here in the published timetable, run by Burkesbus, 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.
4,234
buildings on the model
91
named streets
296
named places
109
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 Q4379716). 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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