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About Kilronan

Kilronan, Cill Rónáin in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 45 km south-west of Galway. The map gives it 769 buildings and 7 named streets, with 44 places named on them in 36 kinds, and 52 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 30th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Population
234, as the map records it
Where
45 km south-west of Galway, 228 km from Dublin
Position
53.1202° N, 9.6695° W
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
769 buildings, 7 streets, 44 named places in 36 kinds
Church and dry stone wall in Kilronan.
Church and dry stone wall in Kilronan.·Herbert Ortner, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Celtic Cross, Aran Islands. (16578581118)
Celtic Cross, Aran Islands. (16578581118)·Robert French, no restrictions 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 52 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Kilronan?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 45 km south-west of Galway and 228 km from Dublin.
How big is Kilronan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 769 buildings, 7 named streets and 44 named places, which by building count makes it the 30th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Kilronan?
52 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Tourist Information Centre, Church of St Thomas and Leaba Naomh Rónáin.
How do you get to Kilronan?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
769
buildings on the model
7
named streets
44
named places
36
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 Q1110219). 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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