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About Cleggan

Cleggan, An Cloigeann in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 77 km north-west of Galway, with 301 people at the 2002 census. It stands on the R379. The map gives it 305 buildings and 1 named street, with 21 places named on them in 22 kinds, and 96 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 67th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Population
301 at the 2002 census
Where
77 km north-west of Galway, 256 km from Dublin
Position
53.5565° N, 10.1107° W, 68 m above sea level
Roads
R379
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
305 buildings, 1 street, 21 named places in 22 kinds
Cleggan Harbour
Cleggan Harbour·Bert Kaufmann from Roermond, Netherlands, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Cleggan Harbour [1]
Cleggan Harbour [1]·Michael Dibb, 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 96 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R379 running through Cleggan.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 1 stop 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 Cleggan?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 77 km north-west of Galway and 256 km from Dublin, on the R379.
How big is Cleggan?
301 people at the 2002 census. On the map it is 305 buildings and 1 named street.
What is there to see in Cleggan?
96 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Cleggan, Cleggan fishing disaster 28th October 1927 and Wild Atlantic Way: Cleggan Harbour.
How do you get to Cleggan?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop here in the published timetable, run by Citylink.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
305
buildings on the model
1
named streets
21
named places
22
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 Q2545878). 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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