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

Claregalway, street by street

A friary and a tower house on the Clare, nine dry stone arches above the road, and a village that tripled in twenty years once the N17 and N18 stopped running through it.

Claregalway is a town of 1,632 people, 10 km north-east of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 663 buildings stands on the map above, and 165 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 Claregalway

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Claregalway

10 km from Galway, 37 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 2 bus stops, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

The friary, the castle, the old bridge, the castles of the parish, Annaghdown on the lake.

Since early times
The history of Claregalway

Forts and crannogs, the friary of the 1200s, the O'Heynes and Lynches, the bypass, the tripling.

Facts
About the town

Population 1,632 at the 2022 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Claregalway

4 restaurants, 2 shops, 1 hairdressers and beauty, 3 supermarkets and 2 pharmacies and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the bridge first.

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

All 43 kinds of place

Guides to Claregalway

All 2 guides
19th Century tomb with the Claregalway Abbey ruins in the background.
Friary
Claregalway Friary

Claregalway Friary is the ruined Franciscan house on the River Clare founded about 1240 by John de Cogan: a cruciform church with a…

Claregalway Friary
Education
Coláiste Bhaile Chláir

Coláiste Bhaile Chláir at Lakeview in Claregalway is the co-educational, multidenominational community college opened on 2 September…

Food and drink

Where to eat in Claregalway

4 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 3 of them within 300 m of the bridge. 2 have hours on record.

  1. Apache PizzaTakeaways
  2. SummerfieldRestaurants · Tuam Road
  3. Treat CaféCafés
  4. Central TavernRestaurants · Tuam Road

Restaurants · Cafés · Takeaways

Plan of Claregalway 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 14 streets
  1. Tuam Road
    national road N83 · 3.5 km
    11 places
  2. Riveroaks
    residential street · 1.3 km
    4 places
  3. Claregalway Corporate Park
    service road · 1.7 km
    2 places
  4. Cuirt Na hAbhainn
    residential street · 1.2 km
    2 places
  5. Lakeview
    residential street · 429 m
    2 places
  6. Slí an Bradán
    residential street · 386 m
    1 place
  7. Summerfield
    minor road L6214 · 2.8 km
    1 place

Things to see around Claregalway

Claregalway Castle complex
Claregalway Castle complex
DeeEmm, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Claregalway Abbey
Claregalway Abbey
Martin P. Whyte, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Claregalway Friary, County Galway, Ireland East front
Claregalway Friary, County Galway, Ireland East front
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 11 ringforts and ancient sites and 7 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. Claregalway CastleCastles · 688 m
  2. Claregalway FriaryAbbeys · 717 m
  3. Killeen CastleCastles · 3.8 km
  4. Cloonboo CastleCastles · 6.1 km
  5. Ballybrit CastleRuins · 6.2 km
  6. Treasure Island Kids ZonePlaygrounds · 6.5 km
  7. Ballindooly CastleCastles · 6.5 km
  8. Ballindooly LoughLakes · 6.7 km
  9. Castlegar CastleCastles · 6.9 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells · Beaches · Hotels

Claregalway in pictures

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

Claregalway Castle complex
Claregalway Castle complex
DeeEmm, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Claregalway Abbey
Claregalway Abbey
Martin P. Whyte, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Claregalway Friary, County Galway, Ireland East front
Claregalway Friary, County Galway, Ireland East front
Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Claregalway Castle
Claregalway Castle
DeeEmm, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Claregalway Abbey, Co. Galway, Ireland
Claregalway Abbey, Co. Galway, Ireland
Charles Mount/Cmount, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Abbey at The Hill of Slane, County Meath, Ireland, December 12, 2007
The Abbey at The Hill of Slane, County Meath, Ireland, December 12, 2007
Gary Miotla, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Claregalway Castle
Claregalway Castle
Darrin Antrobus, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The grounds are still used as a cemetery in present day.
The grounds are still used as a cemetery in present day.
Matheus Muñoz, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Claregalway?
Claregalway is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 10 km north-east of Galway city and 178 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Claregalway?
1,632 people at the 2022 census.
How far is Claregalway from Galway?
10 km in a straight line from the bridge to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Claregalway known for?
The friary and castle on the River Clare, the nine-arch bridge, the drama festival, and being the busy junction village that was bypassed in 2017.
What is the weather like in Claregalway 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.