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Insomnia

Insomnia is a café on Ballalley Lane in Galway, County Galway, 144 m south-west of Eyre Square. The kitchen is listed as coffee shop. Subway, Miramira and City Walls are within 12 m.

Kind
Cafés
Street
Ballalley Lane
From Eyre Square
144 m south-west
Wheelchair
Accessible
Parking
Eyre Square Centre Car Park on Whitehall, 50 m away
Bus stop
Merchants Road (Bus Éireann), 80 m away

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Plan of the streets around Insomnia, 340 metres across
The building in black is this one; drag to turn the model.Open the whole town
Plan of the surrounding 300 mPlan of the streets around Insomnia, 340 metres across

Getting to Insomnia

By car
Park at Eyre Square Centre Car Park on Whitehall, 50 m away, paid, 450 spaces.
By bus
The nearest stop is Merchants Road, served by Bus Éireann, 80 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

112 places to eat and drink within 300 m: Subway (8 m), Costa (18 m), Jump Juice (39 m) and Starbucks (59 m) and more.

134 shops within 300 m, including Miramira, Edward Square and Swamp.

Ballalley Lane itself has 19 named places on the map.

It is open on Sundays (10:30-17:00), which not every place in the town is.

Opening hours

Mon
09:00-17:00
Tue
09:00-17:00
Wed
09:00-17:00
Thu
09:00-18:00
Fri
09:00-18:00
Sat
09:00-17:00
Sun
10:30-17:00

As recorded on OpenStreetMap on 2026-09-18; bank holidays may differ.

Within a short walk

  1. Subway
    Takeaways
    8 m
  2. Miramira
    Jewellers
    11 m
  3. City Walls
    Attractions
    12 m
  4. Costa
    Cafés
    18 m
  5. Edward Square
    Shopping centres
    22 m
  6. Swamp
    Clothes shops
    22 m
  7. New Tower
    Towers
    27 m
  8. The Card Shop
    Craft shops
    27 m

Also on Ballalley Lane

  1. Diesel
    Clothes shops
  2. DNA
    Nightclubs
  3. Elegant Undies
    Clothes shops
  4. Greenes Shoes
    Shoe shops
  6. Miramira
    Jewellers
  7. NAME IT
    Clothes shops
  8. Over the Moon
    Ice cream

Everything on Ballalley Lane (19 places)

Other cafés in Galway

  1. 18 m
  2. Starbucks
    Eyre Square
    59 m
  3. Pascal Coffee House
    Abbeygate Street Lower
    103 m
  4. Caffè Nero
    Eyre Square
    109 m
  5. Gourmet Tart Co.
    Abbeygate Street Lower
    111 m
  6. Adams Green Provisions
    Williamsgate Street
    121 m
  7. 122 m
  8. Fixx
    William Street
    128 m

All 106 cafés in Galway

Questions people ask

Where is Insomnia?
On Ballalley Lane in Galway, 144 m south-west of Eyre Square; the nearest car park is 50 m away.
When is Insomnia open?
The map records Mo-We,Sa 09:00-17:00; Th-Fr 09:00-18:00; Su 10:30-17:00. The table above shows it day by day, and the badge at the top says whether it is open at this moment.
Are there other cafés nearby?
105 other cafés in $Galway; the closest is Costa, 18 m away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap node/9010280284, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.