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About Oranmore

Oranmore, Órán Mór in Irish, is a town in County Galway, 8 km east of Galway, with 5,819 people at the 2022 census. It stands on the N6, N67 and R338. The map gives it 5,099 buildings and 86 named streets, with 155 places named on them in 75 kinds, and 158 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 4th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Population
5,819 at the 2022 census
Where
8 km east of Galway, 177 km from Dublin
Position
53.2684° N, 8.9284° W, 7 m above sea level
Area
2.46 km²
Roads
N6, N67, R338, R921, L5037, L5141, L71083 and L71114
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
5,099 buildings, 86 streets, 155 named places in 75 kinds
Clarinbridge River in Oranmore
Clarinbridge River in Oranmore·Sheila1988, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Oranmore beach
Oranmore beach·Sheila1988, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Oranmore in order

8 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the thirteenth century to 2006. That is not a history of Oranmore, 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.

the thirteenth century2006Claregalway FriaryGalway City Museum
The thirteenth century
  • the thirteenth centuryClaregalway FriaryAbbeys · 8.8 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 158 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N6, N67, R338, R921, L5037, L5141, L71083 and L71114 running through Oranmore.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 11 lines call at 15 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

4 school or colleges on the map: Merlin Woods Primary School, Oranmore Boys National School, Calasanctius College and Gaelscoil de hIde.

Questions people ask

Where is Oranmore?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 8 km east of Galway and 177 km from Dublin, on the N6, N67 and R338.
How big is Oranmore?
5,819 people at the 2022 census. On the map it is 5,099 buildings and 86 named streets.
What is there to see in Oranmore?
158 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Oranmore Castle, An Tobar Uarán Mór and Loughaunrone.
How do you get to Oranmore?
11 bus and train lines call at 15 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Citylink and Healy Bus. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
5,099
buildings on the model
86
named streets
155
named places
75
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 Q1026389). 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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