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About Rosscahill

Rosscahill, Ros Cathail in Irish, is a town in County Galway, 18 km north-west of Galway. The map gives it 1,955 buildings and 5 named streets, with 14 places named on them in 13 kinds, and 116 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 14th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Population
327, as the map records it
Where
18 km north-west of Galway, 198 km from Dublin
Position
53.3872° N, 9.2460° W
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
1,955 buildings, 5 streets, 14 named places in 13 kinds
Banners at the entrance of Brigit's Garden and Cafe
Banners at the entrance of Brigit's Garden and Cafe·Darrin Antrobus, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Tidy Lane at Gortnagroagh
Tidy Lane at Gortnagroagh·Lobster1, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Rosscahill in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1140 to 2011. That is not a history of Rosscahill, 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.

11402011AbbeyBrigit's Garden
The twelfth century
  • 1140AbbeyAbbeys · 12 km from the centre
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 116 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

2 lines call at 12 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Rosscahill?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 18 km north-west of Galway and 198 km from Dublin.
How big is Rosscahill?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,955 buildings, 5 named streets and 14 named places, which by building count makes it the 14th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Rosscahill?
116 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lough Naneevin, Annagh Wood and Lough Dolloug.
How do you get to Rosscahill?
2 bus and train lines call at 12 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.
1,955
buildings on the model
5
named streets
14
named places
13
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 Q26719012). 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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