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About Moycullen

Moycullen, Maigh Cuilinn in Irish, is a town in County Galway, 11 km north-west of Galway. It stands on the N59 and L1320. The map gives it 2,945 buildings and 17 named streets, with 41 places named on them in 39 kinds, and 193 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 8th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Population
2,279, as the map records it
Where
11 km north-west of Galway, 194 km from Dublin
Position
53.3377° N, 9.1791° W, 86 m above sea level
Area
1.37 km²
Roads
N59 and L1320
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
2,945 buildings, 17 streets, 41 named places in 39 kinds
Moycullen - Handcraft Shop - Green Leaves & Red Berries
Moycullen - Handcraft Shop - Green Leaves & Red Berries·Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Moycullen - Handcraft Shop - Two Old Model Cars, one with Driver
Moycullen - Handcraft Shop - Two Old Model Cars, one with Driver·Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Moycullen in order

6 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1140 to 2011. That is not a history of Moycullen, 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.

11402011AbbeyBrigit's Garden
The twelfth century
  • 1140AbbeyAbbeys · 8.9 km from the centre
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 193 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N59 and L1320 running through Moycullen.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Mhuire.

Questions people ask

Where is Moycullen?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 11 km north-west of Galway and 194 km from Dublin, on the N59 and L1320.
How big is Moycullen?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,945 buildings, 17 named streets and 41 named places, which by building count makes it the 8th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Moycullen?
193 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Connemara Marble, Lough Down and Lough Pollalahey.
How do you get to Moycullen?
2 bus and train lines call at 8 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and Citylink.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
2,945
buildings on the model
17
named streets
41
named places
39
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 Q2668865). 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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