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

Caltra, street by street

The burial ground of the palisade, a village of 115 people on the R358 whose football club won the All-Ireland club championship in 2004.

Caltra is a village of County Galway, 44 km north-east of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 661 buildings stands on the map above, and 88 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 Caltra

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Caltra

44 km from Galway, 58 km from Knock, 0 bus stops, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

St Solan's, Killosolan, Clonbrock, Ballinlass, the forge.

Since early times
The history of Caltra

Forts, the church of 1840, the All-Ireland of 2004.

Facts
About the town

where it is, what is here.

What is in Caltra

2 restaurants, 2 pubs, 2 schools, 1 banks and 1 petrol and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the village first.

Food and drink
Services
Motoring
Community
Sport and leisure
Things to see

All 18 kinds of place

Food and drink

Where to eat in Caltra

4 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 4 of them within 300 m of the village. 0 have hours on record.

  1. The Caltra InnPubs · Main Street
  2. Little Wang's Chinese TakeawayTakeaways · Main Street
  3. Uncle Bill's TakeawayTakeaways · Main Street
  4. Keary's BarPubs

Takeaways · Pubs

Plan of Caltra 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 2 streets
  1. Main Street
    regional road R358 · 160 m
    6 places

Things to see around Caltra

View of the nave, looking east.
View of the nave, looking east.
Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Nave, looking west.
Nave, looking west.
Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
South-east view of the church.
South-east view of the church.
Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 43 ringforts and ancient sites and 7 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. Pollaneask TurloughLakes · 2.4 km
  2. Clonbrock CastleCastles · 4.6 km
  3. Mountbellew PlaygroundPlaygrounds · 6.1 km
  4. Old ForgeMuseums · 6.1 km
  5. Ballinlass Eviction MemorialMonuments · 7.1 km
  6. Woodbrook HouseRuins · 8.3 km
  7. Ballinlass LoughLakes · 8.3 km
  8. Callow LoughLakes · 8.6 km
  9. Lough NahinchLakes · 8.8 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells

Caltra in pictures

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

View of the nave, looking east.
View of the nave, looking east.
Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Nave, looking west.
Nave, looking west.
Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
South-east view of the church.
South-east view of the church.
Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Water font of the Caltra Carmelite Friary from 1646 in front of the Our Lady of Lourdes Church. The…
Water font of the Caltra Carmelite Friary from 1646 in front of the Our Lady of Lourdes Church. The…
Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Tower and west façade of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Caltra.
Tower and west façade of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Caltra.
Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
South-west view of the church.
South-west view of the church.
Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
South aisle, looking east.
South aisle, looking east.
Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
North aisle, looking east.
North aisle, looking east.
Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Caltra?
Caltra is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 44 km north-east of Galway city and 145 km west of Dublin.
How far is Caltra from Galway?
44 km in a straight line from the village to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Caltra known for?
Its football club's All-Ireland of 2004, St Solan's church on a friary site, and Eamon Gilmore.
What is the weather like in Caltra 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.