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About Oughterard

Oughterard, Uachtar Ard in Irish, is a town in County Galway, 25 km north-west of Galway. It stands on the N59, L1310 and L1311. The map gives it 2,274 buildings and 25 named streets, with 68 places named on them in 43 kinds, and 92 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 11th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Population
1,846, as the map records it
Where
25 km north-west of Galway, 203 km from Dublin
Position
53.4284° N, 9.3226° W, 68 m above sea level
Roads
N59, L1310 and L1311
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
2,274 buildings, 25 streets, 68 named places in 43 kinds
Bridge over fast flowing river in Oughterard
Bridge over fast flowing river in Oughterard·Lobster1, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Craft shop Butchers and Bar. Main Street. Oughterand
Craft shop Butchers and Bar. Main Street. Oughterand·Martin Dawes, 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 92 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N59, L1310 and L1311 running through Oughterard. 1 car park on the map.

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

2 school or colleges on the map: St. Paul's Secondary School and Scoil Chuimín & Caitríona.

Questions people ask

Where is Oughterard?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 25 km north-west of Galway and 203 km from Dublin, on the N59, L1310 and L1311.
How big is Oughterard?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,274 buildings, 25 named streets and 68 named places, which by building count makes it the 11th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Oughterard?
92 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lough Mall, Aughnanure Castle and Lough Tawny.
How do you get to Oughterard?
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.
2,274
buildings on the model
25
named streets
68
named places
43
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 Q1973811). 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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