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

Béal an Daingin, street by street

The mouth of the stronghold, a small Gaeltacht village on the causeways between the mainland and the islands, where Irish is the first language of almost everyone.

Béal an Daingin is a village of County Galway, 38 km west of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 552 buildings stands on the map above, and 181 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 Béal an Daingin

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Béal an Daingin

38 km from Galway, 13 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 0 bus stops, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

The causeways, the salt house, the island church, Fáinne Chamuis.

Since 1943
The history of Béal an Daingin

A Gaeltacht village and one actor's birthplace.

Facts
About the town

where it is, what is here.

What is in Béal an Daingin

2 pubs, 1 supermarkets, 1 banks, 1 gyms and sport and 1 hotels and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the bridge first.

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

All 15 kinds of place

Food and drink

Where to eat in Béal an Daingin

2 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 1 of them within 300 m of the bridge. 0 have hours on record.

  1. Tigh FoleyPubs
  2. The Hooker Bar (Tí Jack)Pubs

Pubs

Plan of Béal an Daingin 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 4 streets

The map names 4 roads here but records no shop on any of them yet.

Things to see around Béal an Daingin

Cillín (unconsecrated burial ground) in Bealadangan, Co. Galway
Cillín (unconsecrated burial ground) in Bealadangan, Co. Galway
Sawyer777, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Cillín (unconsecrated burial ground) in Bealadangan, Co. Galway
Cillín (unconsecrated burial ground) in Bealadangan, Co. Galway
Sawyer777, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
County Galway, Bealadangan Bridge.
County Galway, Bealadangan Bridge.
Newbert12, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 1 ringfort and ancient site and 2 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. Loch an OileáinínLakes · 1.2 km
  2. Loch an GhadaíLakes · 1.2 km
  3. Loch FadaLakes · 1.7 km
  4. Loch an TuairínLakes · 2.5 km
  5. Loch an AibhnínLakes · 2.7 km
  6. Loch TanaíLakes · 2.7 km
  7. Loch Ghleann an Fhir MhairbhLakes · 2.8 km
  8. Loch LeacrachLakes · 3.1 km
  9. Loch an Bhric MhóirLakes · 3.2 km

Ringforts · Holy wells · Beaches

Béal an Daingin in pictures

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

Cillín (unconsecrated burial ground) in Bealadangan, Co. Galway
Cillín (unconsecrated burial ground) in Bealadangan, Co. Galway
Sawyer777, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Cillín (unconsecrated burial ground) in Bealadangan, Co. Galway
Cillín (unconsecrated burial ground) in Bealadangan, Co. Galway
Sawyer777, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
County Galway, Bealadangan Bridge.
County Galway, Bealadangan Bridge.
Newbert12, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
County Galway, Bealadangan Bridge.
County Galway, Bealadangan Bridge.
Newbert12, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Cillín (unconsecrated burial ground) in Bealadangan, Co. Galway
Cillín (unconsecrated burial ground) in Bealadangan, Co. Galway
Sawyer777, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Cillín (unconsecrated burial ground) in Bealadangan, Co. Galway
Cillín (unconsecrated burial ground) in Bealadangan, Co. Galway
Sawyer777, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Béal an Daingin?
Béal an Daingin is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 38 km west of Galway city and 223 km west of Dublin.
How far is Béal an Daingin from Galway?
38 km in a straight line from the bridge to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Béal an Daingin known for?
Being the Irish-speaking village at the start of the island causeways, and the birthplace of the Ros na Rún actor Diarmuid Mac an Adhastair.
What is the weather like in Béal an Daingin 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.