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

Carraroe, street by street

The most populous Irish-speaking village in Connemara, spread over a peninsula between two bays, with a beach made of coral-like algae and the biggest regatta of Galway hookers.

Carraroe is a town of 725 people, 37 km west of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 1,977 buildings stands on the map above, and 171 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 Carraroe

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Carraroe

37 km from Galway, 9 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 1 bus stop, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

The coral strand, the pier and the hookers, the lake, the church, the university centre.

Since old times
The history of Carraroe

Turf boats, Charles Lamb, the Ó Cadhain centre, the UEFA night, the regatta of 2006, ninety per cent Irish.

Facts
About the town

Population 725 at the 2022 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Carraroe

4 restaurants, 4 pubs, 4 shops, 1 hairdressers and beauty and 1 supermarkets and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the crossroads first.

Food and drink
Shops
Health
Services
Motoring
Community
Sport and leisure
Places to stay
Things to see
Other

All 38 kinds of place

Guides to Carraroe

All 1 guides
Áras Mháirtín Uí Chadhain
Village
Carraroe

An Cheathrú Rua, the red quarter, is the most populous Irish-speaking village of the Connemara Gaeltacht, 69 per cent daily speakers in…

Food and drink

Where to eat in Carraroe

8 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 7 of them within 300 m of the crossroads. 0 have hours on record.

  1. An ChistinPubs · An Bothar Buí
  2. The Dutch HutTakeaways · Sruthán na Teorann
  3. Royal VillaRestaurants
  4. Tigh an TáilliúraPubs · Bóthar an Chillín
  5. Apache PizzaTakeaways · An Bothar Buí
  6. Pizza MaxTakeaways
  7. Óstán an Cheathrú RuaPubs · Cuilleán
  8. An RéaltPubs · An Bothar Buí

Restaurants · Takeaways · Pubs

Plan of Carraroe 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 12 streets
  1. An Bothar Buí
    minor road · 3.9 km
    12 places
  2. Cuilleán
    minor road · 2.4 km
    2 places
  3. Sruthán na Teorann
    residential street · 200 m
    2 places
  4. Bóthar an Chillín
    minor road · 3.2 km
    1 place
  5. Bóthar na Tismeáine
    minor road · 2.3 km
    1 place
  6. Caladh Thadhg Slip
    service road · 51 m
    1 place
  7. Caladh Thaidhg
    minor road · 966 m
    1 place
  8. Coral Strand Road
    minor road · 470 m
    1 place

Things to see around Carraroe

Maerl Fragments, Coral Beach (Trá an Dóilín), Carraroe, County Galway, Ireland
Maerl Fragments, Coral Beach (Trá an Dóilín), Carraroe, County Galway, Ireland
Emkaer, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Harbour buildings, Rossaveel
Harbour buildings, Rossaveel
N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Harbour buildings, Rossaveel
Harbour buildings, Rossaveel
N Chadwick, 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.

  1. Lough ScalpdonnellLakes · 262 m
  2. Loch na NaomhLakes · 741 m
  3. Loch an MhuilinnLakes · 877 m
  4. Loch na Tamhnaí MóireLakes · 1.4 km
  5. Loch na gCaisleachLakes · 1.4 km
  6. Teach an tSalainnRuins · 1.4 km
  7. Loch an Dá EalaLakes · 1.6 km
  8. Loch na MeannáinLakes · 2.2 km
  9. Loch na bhFraochóg BeagLakes · 3.3 km

Holy wells · Beaches

Carraroe in pictures

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

Maerl Fragments, Coral Beach (Trá an Dóilín), Carraroe, County Galway, Ireland
Maerl Fragments, Coral Beach (Trá an Dóilín), Carraroe, County Galway, Ireland
Emkaer, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Harbour buildings, Rossaveel
Harbour buildings, Rossaveel
N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Harbour buildings, Rossaveel
Harbour buildings, Rossaveel
N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Frozen pier
Frozen pier
Carraroe1, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Coral Beach (Trá an Dóilín), Carraroe, County Galway, Ireland
Coral Beach (Trá an Dóilín), Carraroe, County Galway, Ireland
Emkaer, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Carraroe church - Seipeal Mhic Dara
Carraroe church - Seipeal Mhic Dara
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Quay on the NE side of the Carraroe peninsula
Quay on the NE side of the Carraroe peninsula
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Frozen Caladh Thadhg lake during the big freeze in 2010, which lasted 3 weeks
Frozen Caladh Thadhg lake during the big freeze in 2010, which lasted 3 weeks
Anthony Mac Donnacha, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Carraroe?
Carraroe is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 37 km west of Galway city and 222 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Carraroe?
725 people at the 2022 census.
How far is Carraroe from Galway?
37 km in a straight line from the crossroads to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Carraroe known for?
Galway hookers and their regattas, the coral strand at Trá an Dóilín, and being the biggest Irish-speaking village in Connemara.
What is the weather like in Carraroe 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.