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About Gort

Gort, Gort Inse Guaire in Irish, is a town in County Galway, 28 km south-east of Galway. It stands on the M18, R380 and R458. The map gives it 1,787 buildings and 41 named streets, with 77 places named on them in 43 kinds, and 141 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 16th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Population
2,870, as the map records it
Where
28 km south-east of Galway, 173 km from Dublin
Position
53.0670° N, 8.8195° W, 43 m above sea level
Area
3.44 km²
Roads
M18, R380, R458 and R460
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
1,787 buildings, 41 streets, 77 named places in 43 kinds
Gort - Church Street
Gort - Church Street·Desmond Ryan, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
View north from Gort station (geograph 5943972)
View north from Gort station (geograph 5943972)·Gareth James, 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 141 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M18, R380, R458 and R460 running through Gort. 4 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 4 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

5 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Gort?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 28 km south-east of Galway and 173 km from Dublin, on the M18, R380 and R458.
How big is Gort?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,787 buildings, 41 named streets and 77 named places, which by building count makes it the 16th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Gort?
141 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Canon Quinn Park, Gort Castle and Spring Well.
How do you get to Gort?
4 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail and TFI Local Link Galway. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
1,787
buildings on the model
41
named streets
77
named places
43
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 Q1538454). 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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