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About Monivea

Monivea, Muine Mheá in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 26 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the R339. The map gives it 333 buildings and 5 named streets, with 24 places named on them in 30 kinds, and 58 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 63th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Population
456, as the map records it
Where
26 km north-east of Galway, 162 km from Dublin
Position
53.3750° N, 8.7029° W
Roads
R339
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
333 buildings, 5 streets, 24 named places in 30 kinds
Castles of Connacht: Monivea, Galway
Castles of Connacht: Monivea, Galway·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ground floor of the ffrench Mausoleum, Monivea, County Galway
Ground floor of the ffrench Mausoleum, Monivea, County Galway·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 58 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R339 running through Monivea.

By bus or train

1 line calls 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: Monivea National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Monivea?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 26 km north-east of Galway and 162 km from Dublin, on the R339.
How big is Monivea?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 333 buildings, 5 named streets and 24 named places, which by building count makes it the 63th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Monivea?
58 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Church of Ireland Monivea, Monivea Playground and Monivea Castle.
How do you get to Monivea?
1 bus and train line calls at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
333
buildings on the model
5
named streets
24
named places
30
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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