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About Recess

Recess is a village in County Galway, 50 km north-west of Galway. The map gives it 166 buildings and 0 named streets, with 12 places named on them in 15 kinds, and 203 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 74th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
50 km north-west of Galway, 230 km from Dublin
Position
53.4665° N, 9.7257° W, 63 m above sea level
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
166 buildings, 0 streets, 12 named places in 15 kinds
Lissoughter (c.1860 1883)
Lissoughter (c.1860 1883)·National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
Coastline, Railway line and curved lines in Recess
Coastline, Railway line and curved lines in Recess·Robert French, no restrictions 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 203 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Recess; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

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

Questions people ask

Where is Recess?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 50 km north-west of Galway and 230 km from Dublin.
How big is Recess?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 166 buildings, 0 named streets and 12 named places, which by building count makes it the 74th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Recess?
203 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Woody Lough, Loch Ghleann Dá Loch and Loughaunanny.
How do you get to Recess?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 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.
166
buildings on the model
0
named streets
12
named places
15
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 Q2091058). 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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