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About Portumna

Portumna, Port Omna in Irish, is a town in County Galway, 55 km north-east of Limerick, with 1,377 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the N65, R352 and R355. The map gives it 1,674 buildings and 31 named streets, with 63 places named on them in 40 kinds, and 57 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 20th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Population
1,377 at the 2006 census
Where
55 km north-east of Limerick, 133 km from Dublin
Position
53.0923° N, 8.2193° W, 48 m above sea level
Area
1.54 km²
Roads
N65, R352, R355, L4319, L4326, L4327 and L4328
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
1,674 buildings, 31 streets, 63 named places in 40 kinds
Christ Church, Portumna, Co Galway Christ Church, Portumna, was built in 1832.
Christ Church, Portumna, Co Galway Christ Church, Portumna, was built in 1832.·C O'Flanagan, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Portumna Castle (24228425711)
Portumna Castle (24228425711)·Robert French, public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Portumna in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the twelfth century to 1617. That is not a history of Portumna, 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 twelfth century1617Lorrha Priory of St. RuadhanPortumna Castle
The twelfth century
The thirteenth century
The fourteenth century
  • the fourteenth centuryKilnalekin AbbeyHistoric churches · 12 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The seventeenth century
  • 1617Portumna CastleCastles · 660 m from the centre · national monument of Ireland

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 57 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N65, R352, R355, L4319, L4326, L4327 and L4328 running through Portumna. 4 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Portumna Community School.

Questions people ask

Where is Portumna?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 55 km north-east of Limerick and 133 km from Dublin, on the N65, R352 and R355.
How big is Portumna?
1,377 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 1,674 buildings and 31 named streets.
What is there to see in Portumna?
57 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Gate House, Portumna Castle and Gardens and Portumna Castle.
How do you get to Portumna?
3 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Kearns Transport, TFI Local Link Galway and TFI Local Link Tipperary.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
1,674
buildings on the model
31
named streets
63
named places
40
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 Q303163). 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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