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Sliding Rock

Sliding Rock is a park on Colmans Road in Galway, County Galway, 1.1 km west of Eyre Square. Saint Mary's Residential Centre, HRB Clinical Research Facility and Coolavalla B&B are within 203 m.

Kind
Parks
Street
Colmans Road
From Eyre Square
1.1 km west
Parking
Car Park 4, 310 m away
Bus stop
Costello Rd (Opp HSE Clinic) (Bus Éireann), 95 m away

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Plan of the streets around Sliding Rock, 340 metres across
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Plan of the surrounding 300 mPlan of the streets around Sliding Rock, 340 metres across

Getting to Sliding Rock

By car
Park at Car Park 4, 310 m away, paid, 35 spaces.
By bus
The nearest stop is Costello Rd (Opp HSE Clinic), served by Bus Éireann, 95 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

4 places to eat and drink within 300 m: Cooke’s Thatch Bar (272 m), Jalan Jalan (285 m), Zambrero (289 m) and Abrakebabra (293 m).

1 shop within 300 m, including The Gourmet Offensive.

Other sites within 3 km: Millennium Children's Park (428 m), Saint Patrick (435 m), Mary Byrne Playground (489 m), College Park (500 m) and Shantalla Park (501 m).

Within a short walk

  1. 121 m
  2. 184 m
  3. Coolavalla B&B
    Guest houses
    203 m
  4. 209 m
  5. 211 m

Other parks around Galway

  1. 428 m
  2. College Park
    University Road
    500 m
  3. 501 m
  4. 600 m
  5. 678 m
  6. Fisheries Field
    Earls Island
    756 m
  7. Father Burke Park
    Father Griffin Road
    783 m
  8. Woodquay Park
    Riverside
    936 m

All 28 parks around Galway

Questions people ask

Where is Sliding Rock?
On Colmans Road in Galway, 1.1 km west of Eyre Square; the nearest car park is 310 m away.
Are there other parks nearby?
27 other parks around $Galway; the closest is Millennium Children's Park, 428 m away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap way/163315608, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.