Carna, street by street
The focal point of Iorras Aithneach, far to the west of Galway in the strongest Gaeltacht, where in 1935 it was agreed there were more unrecorded folktales than anywhere else in western Europe.
Carna is a village of County Galway, 53 km west of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 356 buildings stands on the map above, and 134 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.
53 km from Galway, 26 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 0 bus stops, 0 car parks.
The church, the emigrants' centre, Ard Castle, Mace Head, Maínis.
To hell or to Connacht, the Famine, the Folklore Commission, Joe Heaney, the All-Ireland of 1998.
where it is, what is here.
What is in Carna
1 restaurants, 1 pubs, 2 supermarkets, 1 pharmacies and 3 schools and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the church first.
- Restaurants1
- Pubs1
- Supermarkets2
- Pharmacies1
- Schools3
- Petrol1
- Gyms and sport1
- Hotels1
- Churches1
- Parks and views94
- Castles and heritage12
Guides to Carna
All 1 guides
Where to eat in Carna
2 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 1 of them within 300 m of the church. 1 have hours on record.
- Tigh MhóráinPubs
- Tigh MheaicRestaurants
Every place to eat and drink as a pin; tap one for its page and directions.
Street by street
All 2 streets- Bruach na Mara3 placesresidential street · 288 m
Things to see around Carna
Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first and 2 holy wells on their own pages.
- Loch an GhearraidhLakes · 309 m
- Loch an tSrutháin DheirgLakes · 490 m
- Loch an ChaoráinLakes · 830 m
- Lough NahownbiggaLakes · 1.1 km
- Lough DoholaLakes · 1.1 km
- Lough AteeskyLakes · 1.2 km
- Loch Céim na CaillíLakes · 1.4 km
- Lough ClooshgirreaLakes · 1.7 km
- Lough TawnaghboyLakes · 1.8 km
Holy wells · Beaches · Hotels
Carna in pictures
Photographs of the place and the country around it, each from an open archive and credited to the person who took it.
Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Newbert12, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Newbert12, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Newbert12, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Newbert12, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Dr Charles Nelson, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Questions people ask
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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.