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About Loughrea

Loughrea, Baile Locha Riach in Irish, is a town in County Galway, 33 km east of Galway. It stands on the N65, R350 and R351. The map gives it 3,568 buildings and 92 named streets, with 171 places named on them in 83 kinds, and 79 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 7th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Population
6,322, as the map records it
Where
33 km east of Galway, 154 km from Dublin
Position
53.1982° N, 8.5691° W, 82 m above sea level
Area
4.25 km²
Roads
N65, R350, R351, R446, R942, L4213 and L4214
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
3,568 buildings, 92 streets, 171 named places in 83 kinds
Loughrea St. Brendan's Cathedral East Transept “Naoṁ Clár” & “Naoṁ Proinnseas” by Alfred Ernest Child Detail Lower Panels 2019 09 05
Loughrea St. Brendan's Cathedral East Transept “Naoṁ Clár” & “Naoṁ Proinnseas” by Alfred Ernest Child Detail Lower Panels 2019 09 05·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Nave of St. Brendan's Cathedral, looking south (liturgically east) towards the main altar.
Nave of St. Brendan's Cathedral, looking south (liturgically east) towards the main altar.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Loughrea in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the fourteenth century to 1897. That is not a history of Loughrea, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

the fourteenth century1897Saint Mary’s AbbeySt. Brendan's Cathedral
The fourteenth century
The fifteenth century
The nineteenth century

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 79 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N65, R350, R351, R446, R942, L4213 and L4214 running through Loughrea. 8 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

6 lines call at 11 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

7 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Loughrea?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 33 km east of Galway and 154 km from Dublin, on the N65, R350 and R351.
How big is Loughrea?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 3,568 buildings, 92 named streets and 171 named places, which by building count makes it the 7th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Loughrea?
79 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Walks, Saint Mary’s Abbey and Ireland Reaching Out.
How do you get to Loughrea?
6 bus and train lines call at 11 stops here in the published timetable, run by Citylink, Healy Bus and Kearns Transport.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
3,568
buildings on the model
92
named streets
171
named places
83
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 Q1025582). 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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