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County Galway

Ross Lake

Ros an Locha

Ross Lake covers 1.3 km² with 16.3 km of shore in County Galway, 3.6 km north-west of Rosscahill.

Getting to the water

A public road or path on the map comes within 15 m of the shore, along about 200 m of it, and there are 3 more stretches 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.

1.3 km²
of water
16.3 km
of shore
4
stretches of shore a way reaches
Area
1.3 km² measured from the mapped outline
Shore
16.3 km around the outline
County
County Galway
In Irish
Ros an Locha
Public access
A public way reaches the shoreMeasured from the map, not from a statement of permission
On the map
OpenStreetMap record
Loch an Rosa (Ross Lake) View of the lake across farmland from the N59.
Loch an Rosa (Ross Lake) View of the lake across farmland from the N59.·Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Loch an Rosa (Ross Lake) View of the lake across farmland from the N59.·Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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.

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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 1.4 km along mapped paths. The map records it as free.

Viewpoints

None mapped within 2.5 km.

Nearest stops

No bus stop or station is mapped within two kilometres.

Getting to Ross Lake

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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.

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How journey planning works
Destination, access and nearby stops

Ross Lake is in Rosscahill, 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 1391 m from the water, about 17 minutes on foot.

Rosscahill is the nearest settlement, 3.6 km north-west of the lake. Arriving in Rosscahill is not arriving at the water, so the journeys below are worked out to the water and say so when they cannot reach it.
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Stops near it

The nearest scheduled stop is Droimnín (531171), 2.2 km away in a straight line. Use the planner to check walking connections for your journey.

  • Droimnín 2.2 km
    buses 419 and 923
    Scheduled departures from this stop

Getting to Rosscahill 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 Ross Lake?
A public road or path comes within 15 m of the shore, along about 200 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 Ross Lake?
1.3 km², with 16.3 km of shore, measured from the outline OpenStreetMap holds.
Where can you park for Ross Lake?
A car park is 1.2 km away, and the walk from it to the shore is 1.4 km along mapped paths.
How do you get to Ross Lake without a car?
The nearest stop in the national timetable is Droimnín, 2.2 km from the main access point on the shore in a straight line, and buses 419 and 923 call there, run by Bus Éireann and Citylink. 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 Q25238256.
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.