About Kilcolgan
Kilcolgan, Cill Cholgáin in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 14 km south-east of Galway, with 194 people at the 2022 census. The map gives it 269 buildings and 1 named street, with 29 places named on them in 32 kinds, and 98 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 68th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
- Population
- 194 at the 2022 census
- Where
- 14 km south-east of Galway, 174 km from Dublin
- Position
- 53.2079° N, 8.8672° W
- Governed
- Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
- On the model
- 269 buildings, 1 street, 29 named places in 32 kinds
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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.
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.
- Ruined church690 mRingforts and sites
- Dunkellin Estuary1.1 kmLakes
- Kilcornan Forest2.2 kmWoods
- The Green2.5 kmParks
- Drumacoo Church2.7 kmHistoric churches
- 2.7 km
- Kiltiernan Church2.8 kmHistoric churches
- Drumacoo Monastic Site2.8 kmRingforts and sites
- Tyrone House2.8 kmRuins
- Knockraboy2.8 kmRingforts and sites
- 2.9 km
- Loughaun Wood3.0 kmWoods
Getting around
The map gives no numbered road inside Kilcolgan; the roads it does record are local.
4 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.
The map records no school inside the settlement.
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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 Q4220513). 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.