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About Maam Cross

Maam Cross, An Teach Dóite in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 38 km north-west of Galway. The map gives it 39 buildings and 0 named streets, with 9 places named on them in 14 kinds, and 153 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 83th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
38 km north-west of Galway, 218 km from Dublin
Position
53.4559° N, 9.5408° W
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
39 buildings, 0 streets, 9 named places in 14 kinds
View of Lough Shindilla
View of Lough Shindilla·Lobster1, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
View of Ardvana Lough at Maam Cross
View of Ardvana Lough at Maam Cross·Lobster1, CC BY-SA 3.0 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 153 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Maam Cross?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 38 km north-west of Galway and 218 km from Dublin.
How big is Maam Cross?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 39 buildings, 0 named streets and 9 named places, which by building count makes it the 83th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Maam Cross?
153 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Loch Ard Doire, Loughanillaun and Lough Agaddy.
How do you get to Maam Cross?
3 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Citylink and TFI Local Link Galway.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
39
buildings on the model
0
named streets
9
named places
14
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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