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About Clifden

Clifden, An Clochán in Irish, is a town in County Galway, 69 km west of Galway, with 1,259 people at the 2022 census. It stands on the N59, R341 and L1104. The map gives it 2,067 buildings and 30 named streets, with 179 places named on them in 68 kinds, and 217 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 13th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Population
1,259 at the 2022 census
Where
69 km west of Galway, 250 km from Dublin
Position
53.4885° N, 10.0211° W, 50 m above sea level
Roads
N59, R341 and L1104
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
2,067 buildings, 30 streets, 179 named places in 68 kinds
Clifden, Market street
Clifden, Market street·JoachimKohlerBremen, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Clifden, Co. Galway (7560813698)
Clifden, Co. Galway (7560813698)·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons

Clifden in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1818 to 1992. That is not a history of Clifden, 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.

18181992Clifden CastleConnemara Heritage and History Centre
The nineteenth century
The twentieth 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 217 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N59, R341 and L1104 running through Clifden. 3 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

4 lines call at 7 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Clifden Community School and St. Joseph's School Clifden.

Questions people ask

Where is Clifden?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 69 km west of Galway and 250 km from Dublin, on the N59, R341 and L1104.
How big is Clifden?
1,259 people at the 2022 census. On the map it is 2,067 buildings and 30 named streets.
What is there to see in Clifden?
217 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Station House Museum, Thomas Whelan Monument and Monument Hill.
How do you get to Clifden?
4 bus and train lines call at 7 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Citylink 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.
2,067
buildings on the model
30
named streets
179
named places
68
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 Q1024913). 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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