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About Moylough

Moylough, Maigh Locha in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 40 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the N63, R364 and R365. The map gives it 714 buildings and 8 named streets, with 16 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 52 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 31th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Population
526, as the map records it
Where
40 km north-east of Galway, 154 km from Dublin
Position
53.4881° N, 8.5678° W
Roads
N63, R364, R365 and L3203
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
714 buildings, 8 streets, 16 named places in 19 kinds
Bobbyjo from Moylough
Bobbyjo from Moylough·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Connacht: Moylough, Galway
Castles of Connacht: Moylough, Galway·Mike Searle, 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 52 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N63, R364, R365 and L3203 running through Moylough.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Moylough National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Moylough?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 40 km north-east of Galway and 154 km from Dublin, on the N63, R364 and R365.
How big is Moylough?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 714 buildings, 8 named streets and 16 named places, which by building count makes it the 31th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Moylough?
52 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Enda Colleran Memorial, Polladirk and Moylough Castle.
How do you get to Moylough?
4 bus and train lines call at 3 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.
714
buildings on the model
8
named streets
16
named places
19
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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