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Saint James' Church

Saint James' Church is a ruin in the town in Galway, County Galway, 2.2 km east of Eyre Square. Galwegians RFC, Glenina and Frankie's Bar & Bistro are within 185 m.

Kind
Ruins
From Eyre Square
2.2 km east
Parking
Clareview Park on Clareview Park, 701 m away
Bus stop
Glenina Heights (Bus Éireann), 186 m away

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Plan of the streets around Saint James' Church, 340 metres across
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Plan of the surrounding 300 mPlan of the streets around Saint James' Church, 340 metres across

Getting to Saint James' Church

By car
Park at Clareview Park on Clareview Park, 701 m away, free.
By bus
The nearest stop is Glenina Heights, served by Bus Éireann, 186 m away, with a shelter.
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

2 places to eat and drink within 300 m: Frankie's Bar & Bistro (185 m) and Galwegians Restaurant (199 m).

Other sites within 3 km: O'Sullivan Park (479 m), Merlin Woods (1.0 km), Merlin Park Castle (1.3 km), Lough Atalia (1.3 km) and Saint Augustine's Well (1.6 km).

Tower houses, the castles of the Irish countryside

Many of the ruins mapped around Tuam are tower houses, the tall stone farm-castles of the later Middle Ages, built to be lived in with a small household and defended when it came to that, with a vaulted floor against fire, corner bartizans and a machicolation above the door.

Written from Wikipedia, "Tower house" (CC BY-SA 4.0); the words are ours.

Within a short walk

  1. Galwegians RFC
    Sports centres
    85 m
  2. Glenina
    Bike hire
    131 m
  3. 185 m
  4. Galway Hospice
    Nursing homes
    190 m
  5. 190 m
  6. 199 m
  7. 239 m
  8. 248 m

Other ruins around Galway

  1. 1.6 km
  2. 2.1 km
  3. 3.1 km
  4. 4.0 km
  5. 4.4 km
  6. Famine cottages
    Bóthar an Choiléir
    4.5 km
  7. 4.6 km
  8. 5.4 km

All 12 ruins around Galway

Questions people ask

Where is Saint James' Church?
In Galway, County Galway, 2.2 km east of Eyre Square; the nearest car park is 701 m away.
Are there other ruins nearby?
11 other ruins around $Galway; the closest is Old Fort, 1.6 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap node/1874150398, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.