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Galway
Galway, County Galway

Things to do in Galway City

Find places that fit your time and your plans. 153 of them are in Galway itself and 16 more within twelve kilometres, because the castle outside the village is usually the reason to go to the village.

96 places

Places to explore in pictures

More places to explore

Showing 96 of 169 places, with photographs first. Every kind of place in Galway lists the rest.

153
in Galway
16
within 12 km
82
outdoors
18
indoors
47
for children

Put a day together

A day on foot in Galway: 9 stops the map records, joined in the shortest order that walks them all, 5.38 km in total.

Galway in a day

By kind

Events during your visit

Checked against the organiser's own pages. Pick a date on the events page and it answers for that day rather than for the month.

Everything on in Galway

While you are there

364 places to eat and 94 places to stay on the map in Galway, and 44 bus and train lines calling here.

Places to eat·Galway on the map·Getting to Galway

Questions people ask

What is there to do in Galway?
153 places inside Galway and 16 more within twelve kilometres, mostly parks, monuments and lakes.
How is indoors or outdoors decided?
By what kind of place each one is: a museum is indoors, a park is not, a castle is some of each. OpenStreetMap carries an indoor tag on about one visitor place in three hundred, so a filter built on the tag would hide almost everything. This is a rule about kinds of place, not a claim about any one of them.
Does with kids mean it is suitable for my child?
No. It means the kind of place children generally do: playgrounds, beaches, parks, zoos, museums. The map records an age limit on a handful of places in the country, so nothing here claims a place suits a particular age.
What does it cost, and when is it open?
This page does not say. OpenStreetMap records a fee on about one visitor place in sixty and opening hours on one in fifty, so stating either would mean guessing for almost everything. Each place's own page shows what the map does hold and links to the operator.
How do you get to Galway?
44 bus and train lines call at a stop in Galway in the published timetable, run by Burkesbus, Bus Feda and Bus Éireann. Which of them runs on the day you are going, and how long it takes from where you are starting, is worked out on the Getting to Galway page.

Places are OpenStreetMap records and each links to the one it came from. Indoors, outdoors and with kids are worked out from what kind of place a thing is, not from tags on it, because the tags exist on almost none of them. Visit lengths are a default for each kind. Distances are straight lines from the centre of Galway.