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The 3D model of Ahascragh: every building standing up, with the shops and services pinned

Ahascragh, street by street

St Cuan's village on the Bunowen, a trout river running to the Suck, where the O'Kellys fought the English in 1307 and a milliner to the world grew up on Church Street.

Ahascragh is a village of 186 people, 49 km east of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 582 buildings stands on the map above, and 90 shops, cafés, schools, churches and services have a page each, with the street, the hours where recorded, the nearest bus stop and car park, and a plan of the streets around it. Everything comes from open map data and says so.

Today
Weather in Ahascragh

Live forecast for the centre, hour by hour and the week ahead.

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Ahascragh

49 km from Galway, 65 km from Knock, 0 bus stops, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

The two churches, Clonbrock, Killure, Kilconnell, the river.

Since 788
The history of Ahascragh

St Cuan in 788, the battle of 1307, the churches of 1800 and 1815, the television parish.

Facts
About the town

Population 186 at the 2022 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Ahascragh

1 shops, 4 churches, 18 parks and views and 65 castles and heritage and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the bridge first.

Shops
Community
Things to see

All 17 kinds of place

Guides to Ahascragh

All 1 guides
Cathal Mannion in action for Galway against Kilkenny in the 2015 National Hurling League at Pearse Stadium
Sport
Cathal Mannion

Cathal Mannion, born 22 October 1994, plays left corner-forward for Ahascragh-Fohenagh and Galway: a minor All-Ireland medal as a…

Street by street

All 0 streets

The map names no street in Ahascragh yet.

Things to see around Ahascragh

Ahascragh, County Galway
Ahascragh, County Galway
Sarah777, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Ahascragh, County Galway
Ahascragh, County Galway
Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
This jawbreaker of a title for an intimate family scene provides todays image from the Clonbrock…
This jawbreaker of a title for an intimate family scene provides todays image from the Clonbrock…
National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 50 ringforts and ancient sites and 4 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. Eglish AbbeyAbbeys · 3.4 km
  2. Clonbrock CastleCastles · 3.7 km
  3. Killure CastleCastles · 4.2 km
  4. Ballynabanaba CastleCastles · 5.3 km
  5. Kilgerrill Church (ruins)Ruins · 5.6 km
  6. Knockaunnagurlaun HouseRuins · 5.9 km
  7. Goat LoughLakes · 6.1 km
  8. Callow LoughLakes · 7.1 km
  9. Goats LoughLakes · 7.5 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells

Ahascragh in pictures

Photographs of the place and the country around it, each from an open archive and credited to the person who took it.

Ahascragh, County Galway
Ahascragh, County Galway
Sarah777, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Ahascragh, County Galway
Ahascragh, County Galway
Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
This jawbreaker of a title for an intimate family scene provides todays image from the Clonbrock…
This jawbreaker of a title for an intimate family scene provides todays image from the Clonbrock…
National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
"Two little children bathing in seaside two other figures in distance, town visible in background" This…
"Two little children bathing in seaside two other figures in distance, town visible in background" This…
National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
There is a certain sense of deja vu about this in that we have been in sitting rooms before with a similar…
There is a certain sense of deja vu about this in that we have been in sitting rooms before with a similar…
National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
We have been to Clonbrock many times before (there are now 20+ images clustered around the estate on the…
We have been to Clonbrock many times before (there are now 20+ images clustered around the estate on the…
National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
Carrying-on from last week's other "100 years ago" posting, here we have a Dillon family shot of Augusta…
Carrying-on from last week's other "100 years ago" posting, here we have a Dillon family shot of Augusta…
National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
The blessing of the Clonbrock Collection is that it gives us insights into a very privileged aspect of…
The blessing of the Clonbrock Collection is that it gives us insights into a very privileged aspect of…
National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Ahascragh?
Ahascragh is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 49 km east of Galway city and 138 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Ahascragh?
186 people at the 2022 census.
How far is Ahascragh from Galway?
49 km in a straight line from the bridge to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Ahascragh known for?
Philip Treacy, the Bunowen trout river, St Cuan and his well, Clonbrock Castle, and the RTÉ send-up of Monica Loolly.
What is the weather like in Ahascragh today?
The weather page shows the live forecast for the centre, hour by hour for the next day and day by day for the week.

How the model is built

The buildings are OpenStreetMap footprints, read on 2026-09-18, stood up to the height the map records or a plain two storeys where it records none. Streets, water and the base map come from the same project through OpenFreeMap. Places are the named shops, services and public buildings on the map; each has its own page.

A building takes the colour of the kind of place inside it: restaurants in red, pharmacies in green, schools in yellow. Nothing is invented to fill a gap: a missing fact is shown as missing, with a link to add it to the map. More about the model.