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About Menlo

Menlo, Mionlach in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 4 km north-west of Galway. It stands on the N59, L1005 and L1006. The map gives it 1,827 buildings and 46 named streets, with 51 places named on them in 38 kinds, and 180 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 15th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
4 km north-west of Galway, 187 km from Dublin
Position
53.3024° N, 9.0736° W
Roads
N59, L1005, L1006, L1008, L1009, L1020 and L5007
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
1,827 buildings, 46 streets, 51 named places in 38 kinds
Menlough Castle On North Bank of River Corrib.
Menlough Castle On North Bank of River Corrib.·paddy (Patrick-Emil Zörner), CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Menlough Castle On North Bank of River Corrib.
Menlough Castle On North Bank of River Corrib.·paddy (Patrick-Emil Zörner), CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Menlo in order

7 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1140 to 2006. That is not a history of Menlo, 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.

11402006AbbeyGalway City Museum
The twelfth century
  • 1140AbbeyAbbeys · 9.4 km from the centre
The thirteenth century
  • the thirteenth centuryClaregalway FriaryAbbeys · 9.9 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first 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 180 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N59, L1005, L1006, L1008, L1009, L1020 and L5007 running through Menlo. 6 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

8 lines call at 14 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Scoil Bhríde and Saint James' National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Menlo?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 4 km north-west of Galway and 187 km from Dublin, on the N59, L1005 and L1006.
How big is Menlo?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,827 buildings, 46 named streets and 51 named places, which by building count makes it the 15th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Menlo?
180 things the map records in and around it, the closest being An Chrois, Famine cottages and Menlo Castle Entrance Arch.
How do you get to Menlo?
8 bus and train lines call at 14 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Feda, Bus Éireann 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.
1,827
buildings on the model
46
named streets
51
named places
38
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 Q4290547). 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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