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County Galway
Loch Scainimh
Loch Scainimh
Loch Scainimh covers 80 ha with 16.3 km of shore in County Galway, 3.0 km west of Carna.
Getting to the water
A public road or path on the map comes within 16 m of the shore, along about 150 m of it, and there is one more stretch like it elsewhere on the shore. That is what the map contains. It is not a statement that the public may walk there, because OpenStreetMap does not record permission, and nobody has checked this lake against its owner.
80 ha
of water
16.3 km
of shore
2
stretches of shore a way reaches
- Area
- 80 ha measured from the mapped outline
- Shore
- 16.3 km around the outline
- County
- County Galway
- In Irish
- Loch Scainimh
- Public access
- A public way reaches the shoreMeasured from the map, not from a statement of permission
- On the map
- OpenStreetMap record
Where it is
The pin sits from the main access point on the shore, and every distance on this page is measured from that same point. The other pins are the nearest lakes in County Galway.
Directions in
Parking, viewpoints and stops
Everything here is measured from the main access point on the shore. A viewpoint is a place that looks at the lake, which is not the same as a place on it.
Parking
An unnamed car park is 1.2 km away, and the walk from it to the shore is 3.5 km along mapped paths. The map records nothing about a charge.
Viewpoints
None mapped within 2.5 km.
Nearest stops
No bus stop or station is mapped within two kilometres.
Getting to Loch Scainimh
About these directions
Public transport times come from National Transport Authority. Timetables cover 2026-09-18 to 2027-09-19. These are scheduled services; check with the operator for cancellations and changes before travelling.
Walking and driving times are estimates. A town search starts at its centre; choose your location or a point on the map for a more precise starting point. Eircode search is not available.
How journey planning worksDestination, access and nearby stops
Loch Scainimh is in Carna, County Galway. Routes here end at the stretch of shore a public way reaches, which this site measured on the ground. A car park is recorded 3462 m from the water, about 43 minutes on foot.
Carna is the nearest settlement, 3.0 km west of the lake. Arriving in Carna is not arriving at the water, so the journeys below are worked out to the water and say so when they cannot reach it.
Stops near it
The nearest scheduled stop is Roisín na Mainiach (13500), 1.8 km away in a straight line. Use the planner to check walking connections for your journey.
- Roisín na Mainiach 1.8 km
bus 432Scheduled departures from this stop
Getting to Carna covers the journeys into the town itself.
The nearest other lakes
Ordered by distance from the main access point on the shore, in a straight line, which is the same point and the same measure as the figures beside them.
Questions people ask
Can you walk to Loch Scainimh?
A public road or path comes within 16 m of the shore, along about 150 m of it. That is what the map shows; it is not a statement of permission, which the map does not record.
How big is Loch Scainimh?
80 ha, with 16.3 km of shore, measured from the outline OpenStreetMap holds.
Where can you park for Loch Scainimh?
A car park is 1.2 km away, and the walk from it to the shore is 3.5 km along mapped paths.
How do you get to Loch Scainimh without a car?
The nearest stop in the national timetable is Roisín na Mainiach, 1.8 km from the main access point on the shore in a straight line, and bus 432 call there, run by TFI Local Link Galway. The planner on this page works out the walk from that stop, and where no footway joins it to the water it says so rather than making a number up.
Where this comes from
- The lake itself
- The outline, the name and the identifiers are OpenStreetMap records. Correct it there Figures marked Wikidata come from Q33285470.
- What this site measured
- The area and the shore are worked out from that outline. The stretches of shore a way reaches, the walk in from a car park and every distance on this page are worked out here, on this site’s own graph of the OpenStreetMap ways, last built on 2026-09-20. These are this site’s calculations, not the map’s, and a mistake in them is a mistake here.