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About Glenamaddy

Glenamaddy, Gleann na Madadh in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 49 km north-east of Galway, with 502 people at the 2006 census. The map gives it 877 buildings and 1 named street, with 20 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 69 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 26th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Population
502 at the 2006 census
Where
49 km north-east of Galway, 155 km from Dublin
Position
53.6066° N, 8.5600° W, 87 m above sea level
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
877 buildings, 1 street, 20 named places in 20 kinds
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The Valley of the Dogs, County Galway Actually it's not my work, it was already public domain, slightly changed by me, but I couldn't find a suitable tag.·Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, public domain 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 69 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

2 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Glenamaddy Community School.

Questions people ask

Where is Glenamaddy?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 49 km north-east of Galway and 155 km from Dublin.
How big is Glenamaddy?
502 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 877 buildings and 1 named street.
What is there to see in Glenamaddy?
69 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Pollanargid, Collins Park Playground and Ardoe Lough.
How do you get to Glenamaddy?
2 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann 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.
877
buildings on the model
1
named streets
20
named places
20
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 Q1965580). 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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