Cleggan, Galway · on a 3D map

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

Cleggan · County Galway

Cleggan, street by street

305 buildings standing up, 110 named places. Buildings are coloured by what is in them; tap any block or pin.

The headland village at the top of its bay, with Nimmo's pier of 1822, the ferry to Inishbofin, and the memory of the night of 28 October 1927, when the mackerel boats did not come home.

Cleggan is a village of County Galway, 77 km north-west of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 305 buildings stands on the map above, and 110 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.

Knockbrack Megalithic Tomb, by Sellerna Beach, Cleggan, Co. Galway. The tomb lines up with the island of…

Today

Weather in Cleggan

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

Buses, roads, parking

Getting to Cleggan

77 km from Galway, 56 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 1 bus stop, 0 car parks.

See and do

Things to do

The pier, the memorial, the signal tower, the cliffs, Omey.

Cleggan harbour and bay with fishing boats

Since legend

The history of Cleggan

St Ceannanach, Colman's island, the pier of 1822, the disaster of 1927.

The pier and harbour of Cleggan Village, western Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. Photo taken 26 June…

Facts

About the town

where it is, what is here.

What is in Cleggan

2 restaurants, 3 pubs, 1 shops, 1 supermarkets and 1 gyms and sport and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the pier first.

Food and drink

Pubs3
Restaurants2

Shops

Community

Community centres1

Sport and leisure

Horse riding1

Places to stay

Guest houses2

Things to see

Other

Ticket1

All 21 kinds of place

Guides to Cleggan

All 4 guides

Harbour area as seen from the road heading North

Island

Inishbofin

Inishbofin, the island of the white cow, lies 8 km off Cleggan: about 180 people, St Colmán's monastery of 665, Cromwell's barracks, a…

Memorial at East End Bay: “In memory of the fishermen who set out from this beach on the 28th October 1927 nine of whom lost their lives in the Inishbofin/Clegg

History

The Cleggan Bay Disaster

On 27 October 1927 a gale rose without warning on the mackerel boats off Cleggan and 45 fishermen drowned: sixteen from Rossadilisk,…

Island

Inishark

Inishark, Inis Airc, the small island west of Inishbofin, was emptied on 20 October 1960 when its last 23 people were moved to the…

Village

Cleggan

Cleggan, An Cloigeann, the headland, is the fishing village 10 km north-west of Clifden at the head of Cleggan Bay, built around the…

Food and drink

Where to eat in Cleggan

5 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 5 of them within 300 m of the pier. 0 have hours on record.

Harbour CaféRestaurants · Main Street
Oliver’sRestaurants · Main Street
Joyce's BarPubs · Knockbrack
Newman’s BarPubs · Knockbrack
The Pier BarPubs

Restaurants · Pubs

Plan of Cleggan 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 1 streets

Main Street
regional road R379 · 557 m
8 places

Things to see around Cleggan

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 3 ringforts and ancient sites and 5 holy wells on their own pages.

Cleggan fishing disaster 28th October 1927Monuments · 117 m
Knockaunbaun LoughLakes · 1.3 km
Cleggan Signal TowerRuins · 1.4 km
Courhoor LoughLakes · 1.4 km
Lough NawtawnyLakes · 1.9 km
Emlaghbeg LoughLakes · 2.1 km
Cleggan CliffsViewpoints · 2.5 km
Barnahallia LoughLakes · 2.8 km
Lough AtaliaLakes · 3.1 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells · Beaches

Cleggan in pictures

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

Cleggan Harbour [1]
Michael Dibb, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Harbour at Cleggan
Alpin Stewart, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Cleggan?

Cleggan is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 77 km north-west of Galway city and 256 km west of Dublin.

How far is Cleggan from Galway?

77 km in a straight line from the pier to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.

What is Cleggan known for?

The Inishbofin ferry, Nimmo's pier, the Cleggan Bay disaster of 1927, and the blanket bog and headland around it.

What is the weather like in Cleggan 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.

Cleggan, street by street