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About Rosmuc

Rosmuc, Ros Muc in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 39 km west of Galway. The map gives it 535 buildings and 0 named streets, with 3 places named on them in 12 kinds, and 204 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 43th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
39 km west of Galway, 223 km from Dublin
Position
53.3525° N, 9.6223° W, 1 m above sea level
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
535 buildings, 0 streets, 3 named places in 12 kinds
Rosmuck school
Rosmuck school·Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Patrick Pearse's Cottage, Rosmuck Village
Patrick Pearse's Cottage, Rosmuck Village·Jo Turner, 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 204 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Scoil Náisiúnta Mhuire and Coláiste na bhFiann.

Questions people ask

Where is Rosmuc?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 39 km west of Galway and 223 km from Dublin.
How big is Rosmuc?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 535 buildings, 0 named streets and 3 named places, which by building count makes it the 43th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Rosmuc?
204 things the map records in and around it, the closest being An tOileán Mór, Oileán na gCapall and Loch na Lannach.
How do you get to Rosmuc?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
535
buildings on the model
0
named streets
3
named places
12
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 Q2062739). 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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