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

Aughrim, street by street

The horse ridge on the old Dublin road where St Ruth drew up the Jacobite army for the Battle of Aughrim on 12 July 1691, with bishops on the site since about 500.

Aughrim is a village of County Galway, 49 km east of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 476 buildings stands on the map above, and 82 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 Aughrim

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Aughrim

49 km from Galway, 75 km from Knock, 2 bus stops, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

The battle centre, the Bloody Hollow, Holy Trinity, Kilcommadan, the two abbeys.

Since 500
The history of Aughrim

Bishops from 500, the battle of 1691, MacNeven, the church of 1819.

Facts
About the town

where it is, what is here.

What is in Aughrim

2 schools, 2 petrol, 6 churches, 11 parks and views and 59 castles and heritage and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the village first.

Motoring
Community
Things to see

All 18 kinds of place

Guides to Aughrim

All 1 guides
View of the Battle of Aughrim, 1691, from the Williamite lines, looking toward the Jacobite positions
History
The Battle of Aughrim

The Battle of Aughrim on 12 July 1691 decided the Williamite war: two armies of about 20,000 each, Saint-Ruth's Jacobites against…

Street by street

All 3 streets
  1. Caltragh
    minor road · 963 m
    1 place

Things to see around Aughrim

Memorial cross on the site of the Battle of Aughrim
Memorial cross on the site of the Battle of Aughrim
No machine-readable author provided. Damac assumed (based on copyright claims)., public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Depiction of the Battle of Aughrim (1691) by John Mulvany. Note: image of painting was edited by Scolaire…
Depiction of the Battle of Aughrim (1691) by John Mulvany. Note: image of painting was edited by Scolaire…
John Mulvany (c. 1839 – 1906), public domain via Wikimedia Commons
View of the Battle of Aughrim, 1691, from the Williamite lines, looking toward the Jacobite positions
View of the Battle of Aughrim, 1691, from the Williamite lines, looking toward the Jacobite positions
Jan Wyk, public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 43 ringforts and ancient sites and 5 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. Aughrim ParkParks · 157 m
  2. Aughrim PlaygroundPlaygrounds · 160 m
  3. Battle of Aughrim Interpretative CentreMuseums · 191 m
  4. Cooke's LoughLakes · 1.0 km
  5. Coololla LoughLakes · 1.1 km
  6. Lyons' LoughLakes · 1.2 km
  7. The bloody HollowAttractions · 1.4 km
  8. Fairfield LoughLakes · 1.4 km
  9. Oak WoodWoods · 1.7 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells

Aughrim in pictures

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

Memorial cross on the site of the Battle of Aughrim
Memorial cross on the site of the Battle of Aughrim
No machine-readable author provided. Damac assumed (based on copyright claims)., public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Depiction of the Battle of Aughrim (1691) by John Mulvany. Note: image of painting was edited by Scolaire…
Depiction of the Battle of Aughrim (1691) by John Mulvany. Note: image of painting was edited by Scolaire…
John Mulvany (c. 1839 – 1906), public domain via Wikimedia Commons
View of the Battle of Aughrim, 1691, from the Williamite lines, looking toward the Jacobite positions
View of the Battle of Aughrim, 1691, from the Williamite lines, looking toward the Jacobite positions
Jan Wyk, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Near Aughrim, County Galway
Near Aughrim, County Galway
Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
View of the Battle of Aughrim, 1691, from the Williamite lines, looking toward the Jacobite positions
View of the Battle of Aughrim, 1691, from the Williamite lines, looking toward the Jacobite positions
Jan Wyk, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Prehistoric goldware in the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street
Prehistoric goldware in the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street
Sailko, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
IdentificatieTitel(s): Slag bij Augrim, 1691De Franse en Yren by Agrim door den Baron van Ginkel teenemaal…
IdentificatieTitel(s): Slag bij Augrim, 1691De Franse en Yren by Agrim door den Baron van Ginkel teenemaal…
Rijksmuseum, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Field of Aughrim, 1905
The Field of Aughrim, 1905
Hugh Thomson, public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Aughrim?
Aughrim is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 49 km east of Galway city and 137 km west of Dublin.
How far is Aughrim from Galway?
49 km in a straight line from the village to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Aughrim known for?
The Battle of Aughrim of 1691, the bloodiest of the Williamite war, its interpretative centre, and a church site with bishops from about 500.
What is the weather like in Aughrim 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.