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

Craughwell, street by street

The hill of plunder on the old Dublin road, where the poet Raftery was buried in 1835 and Lady Gregory raised his stone, with more ruined castles within five kilometres than almost anywhere in the county.

Craughwell is a village of 1,034 people, 21 km east of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 591 buildings stands on the map above, and 100 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 Craughwell

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Craughwell

21 km from Galway, 49 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 4 bus stops, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

Killora, Raftery's grave, Caher, Moyode, Dunsandle, Ballymore Park.

Since early times
The history of Craughwell

Forts, the house of 1750, Raftery, St Colman's, the Land War, the railway.

Facts
About the town

Population 1,034 at the 2022 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Craughwell

2 restaurants, 3 pubs, 1 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
Motoring
Community
Sport and leisure
Things to see

All 29 kinds of place

Guides to Craughwell

All 2 guides
Craughwell railway station, County Galway Opened in 1869 by the Athenry & Ennis Junction Railway, later part of the Great Southern and Western Railway, on the l
Transport
Craughwell railway station

Craughwell has an unstaffed single-platform station on the Galway to Limerick line: a station stood in the village from the mid-19th…

Nature
Rahasane Turlough

Rahasane Turlough west of Craughwell is the largest surviving turlough in Ireland, a karst lake of 257 hectares in two basins that fills…

Food and drink

Where to eat in Craughwell

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

  1. Cheevers BarBars
  2. Rafterys BarBars
  3. Chef’s CafeCafés
  4. Frydays TakeawayRestaurants
  5. Cawleys BarPubs

Restaurants · Cafés · Pubs

Plan of Craughwell 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 6 streets
  1. Killora Court
    residential street · 261 m
    2 places
  2. Dún Ard
    residential street · 800 m
    1 place

Things to see around Craughwell

Craughwell, Co. Galway. I like the way this church is tucked in behind the trees.
Craughwell, Co. Galway. I like the way this church is tucked in behind the trees.
Eoin Gardiner, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Craughwell, County Galway (2)
Craughwell, County Galway (2)
Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Craughwell This is the main road through the centre, the N6 Galway to Loughrea road. I had to wait some…
Craughwell This is the main road through the centre, the N6 Galway to Loughrea road. I had to wait some…
Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 22 ringforts and ancient sites and 1 holy well on their own pages.

  1. Craughwell AC Athletics ParkParks · 797 m
  2. Killora Church (ruins)Ruins · 1.2 km
  3. Rahasane Turlough Special Conservation AreaParks · 2.5 km
  4. Pete’s CastleCastles · 2.6 km
  5. Rahasane TurloughLakes · 2.6 km
  6. Caher CastleCastles · 2.8 km
  7. CarnanthomasCastles · 2.9 km
  8. Mannin Castle (ruins)Castles · 3.5 km
  9. Ardamoran Church (ruins)Ruins · 3.7 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells

Craughwell in pictures

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

Craughwell, Co. Galway. I like the way this church is tucked in behind the trees.
Craughwell, Co. Galway. I like the way this church is tucked in behind the trees.
Eoin Gardiner, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Craughwell, County Galway (2)
Craughwell, County Galway (2)
Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Craughwell This is the main road through the centre, the N6 Galway to Loughrea road. I had to wait some…
Craughwell This is the main road through the centre, the N6 Galway to Loughrea road. I had to wait some…
Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Craughwell, County Galway
Craughwell, County Galway
Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Near Craughwell, County Galway
Near Craughwell, County Galway
Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Craughwell railway station, County Galway Opened in 1869 by the Athenry & Ennis Junction Railway, later…
Craughwell railway station, County Galway Opened in 1869 by the Athenry & Ennis Junction Railway, later…
Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ardrahan railway station, County Galway Opened in 1869 by the Athenry & Ennis Junction Railway, later part…
Ardrahan railway station, County Galway Opened in 1869 by the Athenry & Ennis Junction Railway, later part…
Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Raiftearaí
Raiftearaí
Unknown photographer, public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Craughwell?
Craughwell is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 21 km east of Galway city and 165 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Craughwell?
1,034 people at the 2022 census.
How far is Craughwell from Galway?
21 km in a straight line from the crossroads to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Craughwell known for?
Raftery's grave, its ring of castles, Killora church, the athletics club, and its railway station on the old Dublin road.
What is the weather like in Craughwell 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.