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

Ardrahan, street by street

The high ringfort, with a Fitzgerald castle and the stump of a round tower in the churchyard wall, Edward Martyn's Tulira up the road, and eleven county hurling titles since 1894.

Ardrahan is a village of 540 people, 21 km south-east of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 324 buildings stands on the map above, and 116 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 Ardrahan

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Ardrahan

21 km from Galway, 45 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 4 bus stops, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

Tulira, the castle and tower, Labane church, the grassland, Thoor Ballylee, Coole.

Since before 1236
The history of Ardrahan

The monastery, Fitzgerald's castle of 1236, the railway, eleven titles, Tulira's sale.

Facts
About the town

Population 540 at the 2011 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Ardrahan

3 pubs, 1 shops, 2 supermarkets, 1 schools and 2 banks and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the crossroads first.

Food and drink
Shops
Services
Motoring
Community
Sport and leisure
Places to stay
Things to see

All 27 kinds of place

Food and drink

Where to eat in Ardrahan

3 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 2 of them within 300 m of the crossroads. 0 have hours on record.

  1. Joyce'sPubs
  2. Tarpey'sPubs
  3. BradleysPubs

Pubs

Plan of Ardrahan with every place to eat marked

Every place to eat and drink as a pin; tap one for its page and directions.

Street by street

All 0 streets

The map names no street in Ardrahan yet.

Things to see around Ardrahan

Tarpey's Ardrahan Inn, Market Place, Ardrahan, Co. Galway
Tarpey's Ardrahan Inn, Market Place, Ardrahan, Co. Galway
P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The centre of the village of Ardrahan, Co. Galway
The centre of the village of Ardrahan, Co. Galway
P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Connacht: Castle Taylor, Galway (1)
Castles of Connacht: Castle Taylor, Galway (1)
Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 22 ringforts and ancient sites and 4 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. Tullira CastleCastles · 2.7 km
  2. Ballymaquiff CastleCastles · 2.7 km
  3. Drumharsna CastleCastles · 2.9 km
  4. Tullaghnafrankagh LoughLakes · 4.2 km
  5. Lavallyconor Castle (ruins)Castles · 4.6 km
  6. Lydacan CastleCastles · 4.7 km
  7. Lough CoyLakes · 5.2 km
  8. Church (ruins)Ruins · 5.3 km
  9. Isert Kelly CastleCastles · 5.8 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells

Ardrahan in pictures

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

Tarpey's Ardrahan Inn, Market Place, Ardrahan, Co. Galway
Tarpey's Ardrahan Inn, Market Place, Ardrahan, Co. Galway
P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The centre of the village of Ardrahan, Co. Galway
The centre of the village of Ardrahan, Co. Galway
P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Connacht: Castle Taylor, Galway (1)
Castles of Connacht: Castle Taylor, Galway (1)
Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Drumharsna Castle
Drumharsna Castle
Joe Silke, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Connacht: Castle Taylor, Galway (4)
Castles of Connacht: Castle Taylor, Galway (4)
Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Connacht: Castle Taylor, Galway (2)
Castles of Connacht: Castle Taylor, Galway (2)
Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Drumharsna Castle, Co Galway
Drumharsna Castle, Co Galway
Joe Silke, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Drumharsna Castle
Drumharsna Castle
Jsilke, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Ardrahan?
Ardrahan is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 21 km south-east of Galway city and 171 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Ardrahan?
540 people at the 2011 census.
How far is Ardrahan from Galway?
21 km in a straight line from the crossroads to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Ardrahan known for?
Hurling, Tulira Castle, the Fitzgerald castle and round tower, the Labane windows, and its reopened railway station.
What is the weather like in Ardrahan 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.