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About Spiddal

Spiddal, An Spidéal in Irish, is a town in County Galway, 17 km west of Galway, with 254 people at the 2022 census. It stands on the L1320. The map gives it 1,717 buildings and 27 named streets, with 58 places named on them in 47 kinds, and 104 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 18th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Population
254 at the 2022 census
Where
17 km west of Galway, 203 km from Dublin
Position
53.2441° N, 9.3058° W, 5 m above sea level
Roads
L1320
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
1,717 buildings, 27 streets, 58 named places in 47 kinds
Church in Spiddle
Church in Spiddle·Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Spiddal Harbour from the graveyard of the Old Stone Chapel in Spiddal
Spiddal Harbour from the graveyard of the Old Stone Chapel in Spiddal·Marathon, 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 104 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L1320 running through Spiddal. 1 car park on the map.

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

2 school or colleges on the map: Scoil Éinne and Coláiste Chroí Mhuire.

Questions people ask

Where is Spiddal?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 17 km west of Galway and 203 km from Dublin, on the L1320.
How big is Spiddal?
254 people at the 2022 census. On the map it is 1,717 buildings and 27 named streets.
What is there to see in Spiddal?
104 things the map records in and around it, the closest being An tSeanmhainistir, Máirtín Ó Cadhain and Páirc Spraoi an Spidéil.
How do you get to Spiddal?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and Island Ferries Teoranta.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
1,717
buildings on the model
27
named streets
58
named places
47
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 Q482534). 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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