About Aughagower
Aughagower is a village in County Mayo, 61 km north-west of Galway. The map gives it 315 buildings and 2 named streets, with 17 places named on them in 24 kinds, and 111 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 82th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
- Where
- 61 km north-west of Galway, 217 km from Dublin
- Position
- 53.7638° N, 9.4658° W, 157 m above sea level
- Governed
- Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
- On the model
- 315 buildings, 2 streets, 17 named places in 24 kinds


County Mayo 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.
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.
- Famine Memorial30 mMonuments
- Aughagower History & Folklore120 mInformation boards
- Carney's Cottage 1863150 mMonuments
- Templenafiacal360 mHistoric churches
- Kinlooey Lough1.4 kmLakes
- Kinlooey Lough1.6 kmLakes
- Ballygolman Lough1.8 kmLakes
- Cornacarta Lough1.9 kmLakes
- Knappaghbeg Lough2.4 kmLakes
- Cushinsheeaun Lough2.8 kmLakes
- Knappaghbeg Lough2.8 kmLakes
- St Anne's Well2.8 kmHoly wells
Getting around
The map gives no numbered road inside Aughagower; the roads it does record are local.
No stop here appears in the national timetable.
The map records no school inside the settlement.
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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 (item Q2252222). 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.