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About Furbo

Furbo, Na Forbacha in Irish, is a town in County Galway, 11 km west of Galway. The map gives it 1,187 buildings and 13 named streets, with 20 places named on them in 32 kinds, and 164 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 21th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Population
868, as the map records it
Where
11 km west of Galway, 196 km from Dublin
Position
53.2489° N, 9.2079° W, 15 m above sea level
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
1,187 buildings, 13 streets, 20 named places in 32 kinds
Galway bay evening
Galway bay evening·Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Galway bay
Galway bay·Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Furbo in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1710 to 2006. That is not a history of Furbo, 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.

17102006Eyre SquareGalway City Museum
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 164 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Furbo; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

2 lines call 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: Scoil Náisiúnta na bhForbacha.

Questions people ask

Where is Furbo?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 11 km west of Galway and 196 km from Dublin.
How big is Furbo?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,187 buildings, 13 named streets and 20 named places, which by building count makes it the 21th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Furbo?
164 things the map records in and around it, the closest being An Fearban, Furbo Beach and Hen Harrier Reserve.
How do you get to Furbo?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and Island Ferries Teoranta.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
1,187
buildings on the model
13
named streets
20
named places
32
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 Q2012973). 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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