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About Williamstown

Williamstown, Baile Liam in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 55 km north-east of Galway. The map gives it 829 buildings and 0 named streets, with 10 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 70 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 27th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
55 km north-east of Galway, 158 km from Dublin
Position
53.6779° N, 8.5787° W
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
829 buildings, 0 streets, 10 named places in 19 kinds

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 70 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

3 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Sacred Heart National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Williamstown?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 55 km north-east of Galway and 158 km from Dublin.
How big is Williamstown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 829 buildings, 0 named streets and 10 named places, which by building count makes it the 27th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Williamstown?
70 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Corralough, Lisrivis Lough and St. Patrick's Well.
How do you get to Williamstown?
3 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, TFI Local Link Galway and Westlink Coaches.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
829
buildings on the model
0
named streets
10
named places
19
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.

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