Ballyconneely, street by street

The Conneelys' village on a peninsula of beaches between Clifden and Roundstone, where the first transatlantic wireless message was sent in 1907 and the first transatlantic flight ended in a bog in 1919.

Ballyconneely is a village of County Galway, 70 km west of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 506 buildings stands on the map above, and 176 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 Ballyconneely

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

Buses, roads, parking

Getting to Ballyconneely

70 km from Galway, 46 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 0 bus stops, 0 car parks.

See and do

Things to do

The Marconi site, the landing place, Doon Hill, the beaches, Bunowen pier, the bog.

Since 1854

The history of Ballyconneely

The salmon farm of 1854, Marconi's message of 1907, the flight of 1919, the botanists.

Facts

About the town

where it is, what is here.

Street by street

All 2 streets

The map names 2 roads here but records no shop on any of them yet.

Things to see around Ballyconneely

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 3 ringforts and ancient sites and 2 holy wells on their own pages.

1. Ballyconneely Community ParkParks · 107 m
2. Lettershask LoughLakes · 1.2 km
3. Lough AscardaunLakes · 1.6 km
4. Lough AnaserdLakes · 1.6 km
5. Lettershask Lough NorthLakes · 1.9 km
6. Lough KankogeLakes · 2.0 km
7. Manninmore LoughLakes · 2.2 km
8. Lough NambrackkeaghLakes · 2.3 km
9. Lough EmlaghnabehyLakes · 2.5 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells · Beaches · Hotels

Ballyconneely in pictures

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