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About Lackagh

Lackagh is a village in County Galway, 15 km north-east of Galway. The map gives it 236 buildings and 3 named streets, with 15 places named on them in 24 kinds, and 52 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 71th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
15 km north-east of Galway, 175 km from Dublin
Position
53.3703° N, 8.8904° W
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
236 buildings, 3 streets, 15 named places in 24 kinds
River Clare at Lackagh County Galway
River Clare at Lackagh County Galway·DeeEmm, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Site of the Battle of Knockdoe 1504
Site of the Battle of Knockdoe 1504·DeeEmm, 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 52 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

2 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Lackagh National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Lackagh?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 15 km north-east of Galway and 175 km from Dublin.
How big is Lackagh?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 236 buildings, 3 named streets and 15 named places, which by building count makes it the 71th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Lackagh?
52 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Tober Suivne, Cahermore and Caisleán Chill Torróg.
How do you get to Lackagh?
2 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and Bus4u.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
236
buildings on the model
3
named streets
15
named places
24
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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