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About Garrafrauns

Garrafrauns, Na Garfráin in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 43 km north of Galway. The map gives it 581 buildings and 1 named street, with 8 places named on them in 14 kinds, and 79 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 39th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
43 km north of Galway, 172 km from Dublin
Position
53.6340° N, 8.8232° W
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
581 buildings, 1 street, 8 named places in 14 kinds
St Patrick's church, Garrafrauns
St Patrick's church, Garrafrauns·David Purchase, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The R328 heading for Dunmore
The R328 heading for Dunmore·David Purchase, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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 79 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

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: Garrafrauns National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Garrafrauns?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 43 km north of Galway and 172 km from Dublin.
How big is Garrafrauns?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 581 buildings, 1 named street and 8 named places, which by building count makes it the 39th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Garrafrauns?
79 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lisnabanan, Infants' Burial Ground and Lisnagroagh.
How do you get to Garrafrauns?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Farragher Travel.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
581
buildings on the model
1
named streets
8
named places
14
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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