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About Woodford

Woodford, An Ghráig in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 46 km north of Limerick. It stands on the R351. The map gives it 165 buildings and 5 named streets, with 16 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 41 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 75th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
46 km north of Limerick, 146 km from Dublin
Position
53.0522° N, 8.3995° W
Roads
R351
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
165 buildings, 5 streets, 16 named places in 20 kinds
Woodford River
Woodford River·David Leech, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
They even brought a piper to the party Flickr National Library of Ireland on The Commons
They even brought a piper to the party Flickr National Library of Ireland on The Commons·Robert French, no restrictions 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 41 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R351 running through Woodford.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Woodford Primary School.

Questions people ask

Where is Woodford?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 46 km north of Limerick and 146 km from Dublin, on the R351.
How big is Woodford?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 165 buildings, 5 named streets and 16 named places, which by building count makes it the 75th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Woodford?
41 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Woodford Playground, Woodford Bay and St Marys Well.
How do you get to Woodford?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the R351.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
165
buildings on the model
5
named streets
16
named places
20
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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