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Famine Ship Memorial

Famine Ship Memorial is a monument in the town in Galway, County Galway, 1.7 km south-west of Eyre Square. Grattan Beach and The Celia Griffin Children’s Park are within 198 m.

Kind
Monuments
From Eyre Square
1.7 km south-west
Read more
Famine Ship Memorial on Wikipedia
Wheelchair
Accessible
Parking
Claude Toft Car Park on Seapoint Promenade, 616 m away
Bus stop
Salthill Road Lower (Bus Éireann), 576 m away

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Plan of the streets around Famine Ship Memorial, 340 metres across
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Plan of the surrounding 300 mPlan of the streets around Famine Ship Memorial, 340 metres across

Getting to Famine Ship Memorial

By car
Park at Claude Toft Car Park on Seapoint Promenade, 616 m away, free, 139 spaces.
By bus
The nearest stop is Salthill Road Lower, served by Bus Éireann, 576 m away.
Directions from where you are
Open the model above, tap the pin and choose “Directions here”; the route is drawn from your own position.

While you are there

Other sites within 3 km: The Celia Griffin Children’s Park (198 m), Claude Toft Park (496 m), Claude Toft Park Playground (560 m), South Park (599 m) and Katie's Claddagh Cottage (677 m).

Within a short walk

  1. 100 m
  2. 198 m

Other monuments around Galway

  1. 960 m
  2. Fr Burke Statue
    Father Griffin Road
    976 m
  3. Christopher Columbus Monument
    Wolf Tone Pedestrian Bridge II
    1.1 km
  4. Blake's Castle
    Quay Street
    1.2 km
  5. Martin Theatre
    Kirwan's Lane
    1.2 km
  6. 1.2 km
  7. 1.3 km
  8. 1.3 km

All 24 monuments around Galway

Questions people ask

Where is Famine Ship Memorial?
In Galway, County Galway, 1.7 km south-west of Eyre Square; the nearest car park is 616 m away.
Are there other monuments nearby?
23 other monuments around $Galway; the closest is Walter Macken House, 960 m away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap node/1314978177, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.