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About Mountbellew

Mountbellew, An Creagán in Irish, is a town in County Galway, 42 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the N63 and R365. The map gives it 1,706 buildings and 17 named streets, with 49 places named on them in 37 kinds, and 59 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 19th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Population
774, as the map records it
Where
42 km north-east of Galway, 149 km from Dublin
Position
53.4695° N, 8.5019° W, 44 m above sea level
Roads
N63 and R365
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
1,706 buildings, 17 streets, 49 named places in 37 kinds
The Square, Mount Bellew Bridge, County Galway, 1980
The Square, Mount Bellew Bridge, County Galway, 1980·Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Bridge in Mountbellew Demense Woodland, east Co. Galway
Bridge in Mountbellew Demense Woodland, east Co. 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 59 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N63 and R365 running through Mountbellew. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

5 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Mountbellew?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 42 km north-east of Galway and 149 km from Dublin, on the N63 and R365.
How big is Mountbellew?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,706 buildings, 17 named streets and 49 named places, which by building count makes it the 19th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Mountbellew?
59 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Mountbellew Playground, Old Forge and Ballynakill Church.
How do you get to Mountbellew?
5 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Bus4u 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.
1,706
buildings on the model
17
named streets
49
named places
37
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 Q3752988). 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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