Skip to content
Galway
County Galway · Connacht

About Tír an Fhia

Tír an Fhia is a village in County Galway, 41 km west of Galway. The map gives it 464 buildings and 1 named street, with 13 places named on them in 16 kinds, and 112 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 52th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
41 km west of Galway, 226 km from Dublin
Position
53.2705° N, 9.6627° W
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
464 buildings, 1 street, 13 named places in 16 kinds
Slipway into a very calm bay
Slipway into a very calm bay·Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Small harbour on Carraveg Bay
Small harbour on Carraveg Bay·Gordon Hatton, 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 112 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Tír an Fhia; 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: Coláiste na nOileán and Scoil Náisiúnta Tír an Fhiaidh.

Questions people ask

Where is Tír an Fhia?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 41 km west of Galway and 226 km from Dublin.
How big is Tír an Fhia?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 464 buildings, 1 named street and 13 named places, which by building count makes it the 52th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Tír an Fhia?
112 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Loch Ghleann Trasna, Loch Bran and Loch Tan.
How do you get to Tír an Fhia?
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.
464
buildings on the model
1
named streets
13
named places
16
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. 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.

Back to Tír an Fhia·Getting to Tír an Fhia·County Galway