About Kilreekil
Kilreekil, Cill Rícill in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 40 km east of Galway. The map gives it 90 buildings and 0 named streets, with 10 places named on them in 15 kinds, and 63 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 81th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
- Where
- 40 km east of Galway, 146 km from Dublin
- Position
- 53.2298° N, 8.4524° W
- Governed
- Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
- On the model
- 90 buildings, 0 streets, 10 named places in 15 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.
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.
- Priest's Well450 mHoly wells
- Lisnactoba750 mRingforts and sites
- Lissaniska880 mRingforts and sites
- St Brendan's Wells1.4 kmHoly wells
- Dartfield Horse Museum1.8 kmAttractions
- Tobermacdruagh2.2 kmHoly wells
- Turlough2.3 kmLakes
- Lismore2.9 kmRingforts and sites
- Kilbought Convent3.0 kmRuins
- r3.2 kmGardens
- Kilcooly Church3.5 kmRuins
- Church (ruins)3.5 kmRuins
Getting around
The map gives no numbered road inside Kilreekil; the roads it does record are local.
No stop here appears in the national timetable.
1 school or college on the map: Kilrickle National School.
Questions people ask
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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. 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.