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About Kilchreest

Kilchreest, Cill Chríost in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 28 km east of Galway. The map gives it 126 buildings and 0 named streets, with 2 places named on them in 13 kinds, and 90 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 78th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
28 km east of Galway, 160 km from Dublin
Position
53.1785° N, 8.6528° W
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
126 buildings, 0 streets, 2 named places in 13 kinds

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 90 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Kilchreest; 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

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Kilchreest?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 28 km east of Galway and 160 km from Dublin.
How big is Kilchreest?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 126 buildings, 0 named streets and 2 named places, which by building count makes it the 78th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Kilchreest?
90 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Woodville Walled Garden, Castle in Ruins and Cloghastookeen Castle (ruins).
How do you get to Kilchreest?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by 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.
126
buildings on the model
0
named streets
2
named places
13
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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