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About Kilkieran

Kilkieran, Cill Chiaráin in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 46 km west of Galway. The map gives it 343 buildings and 1 named street, with 9 places named on them in 15 kinds, and 169 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 62th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
46 km west of Galway, 231 km from Dublin
Position
53.3258° N, 9.7353° W
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
343 buildings, 1 street, 9 named places in 15 kinds
Kilkieran Quay
Kilkieran Quay·N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kilkieran Quay
Kilkieran Quay·Gordon Hatton, 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 169 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

2 lines call 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 Kilkieran?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 46 km west of Galway and 231 km from Dublin.
How big is Kilkieran?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 343 buildings, 1 named street and 9 named places, which by building count makes it the 62th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Kilkieran?
169 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Loch na Sióige, Loch an Óir and Loch Salach.
How do you get to Kilkieran?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 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.
343
buildings on the model
1
named streets
9
named places
15
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 Q2424891). 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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