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About Cloonboo

Cloonboo, Cluain Bú in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 11 km north of Galway. It stands on the N84. The map gives it 472 buildings and 1 named street, with 8 places named on them in 21 kinds, and 136 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 50th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Population
484, as the map records it
Where
11 km north of Galway, 183 km from Dublin
Position
53.3747° N, 9.0164° W
Roads
N84
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
472 buildings, 1 street, 8 named places in 21 kinds
N84 crossing the River Cregg
N84 crossing the River Cregg·N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Connacht: Cloonboo, Galway (1)
Castles of Connacht: Cloonboo, Galway (1)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Cloonboo in order

6 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1140 to 2006. That is not a history of Cloonboo, 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 · 4.0 km from the centre
The thirteenth century
  • the thirteenth centuryClaregalway FriaryAbbeys · 5.7 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 136 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N84 running through Cloonboo.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 5 stops 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 Cloonboo?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 11 km north of Galway and 183 km from Dublin, on the N84.
How big is Cloonboo?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 472 buildings, 1 named street and 8 named places, which by building count makes it the 50th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Cloonboo?
136 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Cloonboo Castle, St. Cyprian's Well and Castle Creevy.
How do you get to Cloonboo?
3 bus and train lines call at 5 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.
472
buildings on the model
1
named streets
8
named places
21
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 Q26716067). 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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