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About Creagh

Creagh, An Chríoch in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 57 km east of Galway. It stands on the M6, R357 and R446. The map gives it 1,729 buildings and 35 named streets, with 16 places named on them in 28 kinds, and 76 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 17th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
57 km east of Galway, 129 km from Dublin
Position
53.3285° N, 8.2029° W
Roads
M6, R357 and R446
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
1,729 buildings, 35 streets, 16 named places in 28 kinds
Church Hill, a small lane leading to St. John the Evangelist Church, as seen from the Society Street, looking west.
Church Hill, a small lane leading to St. John the Evangelist Church, as seen from the Society Street, looking west.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
South-west view of St. John the Evangelist Church. Designed by the architect Joseph Welland (1798–1860) in 1840.
South-west view of St. John the Evangelist Church. Designed by the architect Joseph Welland (1798–1860) in 1840.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Creagh in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the twelfth century to 1939. That is not a history of Creagh, 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.

the twelfth century1939Clontuskert AbbeyCreagh National School
The twelfth century
  • the twelfth centuryClontuskert AbbeyAbbeys · 5.2 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
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 76 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M6, R357 and R446 running through Creagh.

By bus or train

5 lines call at 8 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Creagh?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 57 km east of Galway and 129 km from Dublin, on the M6, R357 and R446.
How big is Creagh?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,729 buildings, 35 named streets and 16 named places, which by building count makes it the 17th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Creagh?
76 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Kilbegly Church ruin, West Wood and Rath na Sluagh.
How do you get to Creagh?
5 bus and train lines call at 8 stops here in the published timetable, run by 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.
1,729
buildings on the model
35
named streets
16
named places
28
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. 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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