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About Headford

Headford, Áth Cinn in Irish, is a town in County Galway, 22 km north of Galway, with 760 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the N84 and R334. The map gives it 2,284 buildings and 13 named streets, with 47 places named on them in 30 kinds, and 106 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 10th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Population
760 at the 2006 census
Where
22 km north of Galway, 189 km from Dublin
Position
53.4693° N, 9.1071° W
Roads
N84 and R334
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
Twinned with
Morgan Hill, United States and Le Faouët, France
On the model
2,284 buildings, 13 streets, 47 named places in 30 kinds
Ross Errilly Abbey Friary
Ross Errilly Abbey Friary·Dermot13, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ross Errily Abbey Friary
Ross Errily Abbey Friary·Becky McReynolds, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Headford in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1140 to 2011. That is not a history of Headford, 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.

11402011AbbeyBrigit's Garden
The twelfth century
  • 1140AbbeyAbbeys · 9.5 km from the centre
The fourteenth century
  • the fourteenth centuryRoss Errilly FriaryAbbeys · 2.0 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
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 106 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N84 and R334 running through Headford.

By bus or train

4 lines call at 17 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

4 school or colleges on the map: Scoil Naomh Fursa, Headford National School, Presentation College Headford and Knockbroone National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Headford?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 22 km north of Galway and 189 km from Dublin, on the N84 and R334.
How big is Headford?
760 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 2,284 buildings and 13 named streets.
What is there to see in Headford?
106 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Headford Castle, John the Baptist Church and Lough Turrae.
How do you get to Headford?
4 bus and train lines call at 17 stops here in the published timetable, run by Burkesbus, 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.
2,284
buildings on the model
13
named streets
47
named places
30
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 Q2015820). 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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