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About Kylemore

Kylemore is a village in County Galway, 50 km south-east of Galway. It stands on the R353. The map gives it 85 buildings and 1 named street, with 2 places named on them in 12 kinds, and 49 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 82th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
50 km south-east of Galway, 143 km from Dublin
Position
53.1013° N, 8.3644° W
Roads
R353
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
85 buildings, 1 street, 2 named places in 12 kinds
The L8230 road at Abbey, Co. Galway
The L8230 road at Abbey, Co. Galway·P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Connacht: Clooneen, Galway (1)
Castles of Connacht: Clooneen, Galway (1)·Mike Searle, 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 49 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R353 running through Kylemore.

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 Kylemore?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 50 km south-east of Galway and 143 km from Dublin, on the R353.
How big is Kylemore?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 85 buildings, 1 named street and 2 named places, which by building count makes it the 82th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Kylemore?
49 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Coolfin Castle, Kilnalekin Abbey and Pallas Castle.
How do you get to Kylemore?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the R353.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
85
buildings on the model
1
named streets
2
named places
12
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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