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About Eyrecourt

Eyrecourt, Dún an Uchta in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 62 km east of Galway. It stands on the R356. The map gives it 498 buildings and 8 named streets, with 14 places named on them in 17 kinds, and 65 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 48th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
62 km east of Galway, 126 km from Dublin
Position
53.2001° N, 8.1318° W, 55 m above sea level
Roads
R356
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
Twinned with
Gouesnach, France
On the model
498 buildings, 8 streets, 14 named places in 17 kinds
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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 65 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R356 running through Eyrecourt.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: St. Breandan's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Eyrecourt?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 62 km east of Galway and 126 km from Dublin, on the R356.
How big is Eyrecourt?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 498 buildings, 8 named streets and 14 named places, which by building count makes it the 48th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Eyrecourt?
65 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Killenehy Fort, Lisfinney and Eyrecourt Castle.
How do you get to Eyrecourt?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by 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.
498
buildings on the model
8
named streets
14
named places
17
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 Q2588715). 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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