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About Claregalway

Claregalway, Baile Chláir in Irish, is a town in County Galway, 10 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the N83 and L3101. The map gives it 823 buildings and 19 named streets, with 49 places named on them in 45 kinds, and 129 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 28th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Population
1,632, as the map records it
Where
10 km north-east of Galway, 178 km from Dublin
Position
53.3405° N, 8.9462° W, 12 m above sea level
Roads
N83 and L3101
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
823 buildings, 19 streets, 49 named places in 45 kinds
Claregalway Friary, County Galway, Ireland East front
Claregalway Friary, County Galway, Ireland East front·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Claregalway Castle
Claregalway Castle·DeeEmm, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Claregalway in order

8 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1140 to 2006. That is not a history of Claregalway, 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.

11402006AbbeyGalway City Museum
The twelfth century
  • 1140AbbeyAbbeys · 9.9 km from the centre
The thirteenth century
  • the thirteenth centuryClaregalway FriaryAbbeys · 720 m 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 129 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N83 and L3101 running through Claregalway.

By bus or train

9 lines call at 13 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

4 school or colleges on the map: Claregalway National School, Claregalway Educate Together N.S., Claregalway Educate Together and Coláiste Bhaile Chláir.

Questions people ask

Where is Claregalway?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 10 km north-east of Galway and 178 km from Dublin, on the N83 and L3101.
How big is Claregalway?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 823 buildings, 19 named streets and 49 named places, which by building count makes it the 28th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Claregalway?
129 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Claregalway Castle, Claregalway Friary and Caisleán Chill Torróg.
How do you get to Claregalway?
9 bus and train lines call at 13 stops here in the published timetable, run by Burkesbus, Bus Éireann and Bus4u.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
823
buildings on the model
19
named streets
49
named places
45
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 Q803791). 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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