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About Craughwell

Craughwell, Creachmhaoil in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 21 km east of Galway. It stands on the R347. The map gives it 591 buildings and 6 named streets, with 20 places named on them in 29 kinds, and 84 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 36th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
21 km east of Galway, 165 km from Dublin
Position
53.2307° N, 8.7349° W, 62 m above sea level
Roads
R347
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
591 buildings, 6 streets, 20 named places in 29 kinds
View near Craughwell station
View near Craughwell station·Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Craughwell railway station, County Galway (geograph 6347946)
Craughwell railway station, County Galway (geograph 6347946)·Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Craughwell in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1241 to 1779. That is not a history of Craughwell, 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.

12411779Athenry AbbeyTyrone House
The thirteenth century
  • 1241Athenry AbbeyHistoric churches · 7.6 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fourteenth century
The fifteenth century
The eighteenth 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 84 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R347 running through Craughwell.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 4 lines call at 5 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Craughwell National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Craughwell?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 21 km east of Galway and 165 km from Dublin, on the R347.
How big is Craughwell?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 591 buildings, 6 named streets and 20 named places, which by building count makes it the 36th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Craughwell?
84 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Craughwell AC Athletics Park, Killora Church (ruins) and 1421NWK022 Spring.
How do you get to Craughwell?
4 bus and train lines call at 5 stops here in the published timetable, run by Citylink, Healy Bus and Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
591
buildings on the model
6
named streets
20
named places
29
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 Q2090966). 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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