Furbo, street by street
Fourteen townlands running from the bog to the shore between Barna and Spiddal, with no village centre at all, and the headquarters of Údarás na Gaeltachta.
Furbo is a town of 868 people, 11 km west of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 1,115 buildings stands on the map above, and 175 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.
11 km from Galway, 18 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 1 bus stop, 0 car parks.
The church and mausoleum, the strand, An Fearbán, the reserve, Cnoc Suain.
The mausoleum of 1860, the Gaeltacht Authority, and a settlement of fourteen townlands.
Population 868 at the 2022 census, where it is, what is here.
What is in Furbo
1 restaurants, 1 pubs, 1 supermarkets, 2 schools and 2 offices and agents and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the church first.
- Restaurants1
- Pubs1
- Supermarkets1
- Schools2
- Offices and agents2
- Petrol1
- Gyms and sport3
- Hotels1
- Churches2
- Parks and views103
- Castles and heritage41
Guides to Furbo
All 1 guides
Where to eat in Furbo
2 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 0 of them within 300 m of the church. 0 have hours on record.
- Teach Furbo and Players BarBars
- Pádraicín’sRestaurants · Furbo Hill
Every place to eat and drink as a pin; tap one for its page and directions.
Street by street
All 13 streets- Dún Éibhir2 placesresidential street · 438 m
- An Féarbán1 placeresidential street · 140 m
- Gaoth na Mara1 placeresidential street · 125 m
- Radharc an Chaolaire1 placeresidential street · 182 m
Things to see around Furbo
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ian Hawfinch, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 3 ringforts and ancient sites and 1 holy well on their own pages.
- An FearbanMonuments · 323 m
- Hen Harrier ReserveNature reserves · 3.0 km
- Loch InseLakes · 3.5 km
- Loch ToirmeascthaLakes · 3.6 km
- Loch na Tamhnaí AirdeLakes · 4.5 km
- Páirc Spraoi an SpidéilPlaygrounds · 4.6 km
- Lough DaleLakes · 4.9 km
- Lough PhaddyLakes · 4.9 km
- Lough BegLakes · 5.1 km
Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells · Beaches · Hotels
Furbo in pictures
Photographs of the place and the country around it, each from an open archive and credited to the person who took it.
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ian Hawfinch, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
MaxPride, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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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.