Ballygar, street by street
A planned market town of 1820 at the gate of Castle Kelly, where the landlord walked every house on the first of the month with tickets for cleanliness and a prize at the year's end.
Ballygar is a village of 660 people, 55 km north-east of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 984 buildings stands on the map above, and 69 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.
Live forecast for the centre, hour by hour and the week ahead.
55 km from Galway, 54 km from Knock, 2 bus stops, 0 car parks.
The square and diamond, St Mary's, Killeroran, Ballinlass, Woodbrook.
The surrender of 1585, the vanished castle, Kelly's market of 1820, tickets and loans, the town of 1840.
Population 660 at the 2022 census, where it is, what is here.
What is in Ballygar
2 supermarkets, 2 schools, 1 banks, 1 petrol and 7 churches and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the market square first.
Street by street
All 2 streets- Main Street3 placesnational road N63 · 874 m
Things to see around Ballygar
Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 27 ringforts and ancient sites and 7 holy wells on their own pages.
- Killeroran Church (ruins)Ruins · 1.4 km
- Mount Talbot HouseHistoric houses · 2.8 km
- Taghboy LoughLakes · 3.9 km
- Ballinlass LoughLakes · 4.1 km
- Ballaghdacker LoughLakes · 5.3 km
- Angling Visitor Conference CenterPicnic sites · 6.9 km
- Cloghnashade LoughLakes · 6.9 km
- Claremont HouseHistoric houses · 7.0 km
- NunneryAbbeys · 7.6 km
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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.