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Lakes in County Galway
A moment by the waterLough InaghCounty Galway · Photograph from 2014
Maria Hynes, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
533 named lakes are assigned to County Galway by their mapped centres. 220 have a mapped road or path within sixty metres of the shore. Check each lake's access information before visiting.
533
named lakes
220
with shore a way reaches
254 km²
of water in all
The nearest to you
Nearest to you
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Where they are
All of them, largest first
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A lake is listed here when the County Galway boundary encloses it, taken from the OpenStreetMap administrative boundaries. That is a different question from which town is nearest to it, and this page answers only the first. Measured and built on 2026-09-20.