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The 3D model of Galway: every building standing up, with the shops and services pinned

Galway, street by street

A fort at the mouth of the Gaillimh, fourteen merchant families behind a wall, a port that traded with Spain, and the city of festivals it turned into.

Galway city is a city of 85,910 people. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 39,574 buildings stands on the map above, and 2269 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.

Today
Weather in Galway

Live forecast for the centre, hour by hour and the week ahead.

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Galway

185 km from Dublin, 28 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 346 bus stops, 28 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

The medieval streets, the Spanish Arch, St Nicholas' church, the cathedral, the Claddagh, Salthill, and a festival almost every month.

Since 1124
The history of Galway

The 1124 fort, the Tribes and their charter, Columbus, the Spanish trade, Cromwell, the Queen's College and the railway.

Facts
About the city

Population 85,910 at the 2022 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Galway

282 restaurants, 91 pubs, 312 shops, 90 hairdressers and beauty and 105 supermarkets and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to Eyre Square first.

Food and drink
Shops
Health
Services
Motoring
Community
Sport and leisure
Places to stay
Things to see
Other

All 266 kinds of place

Guides to Galway

All 75 guides
Eyre Square
Getting around
Galway train station, Ceannt Station

Ceannt Station is on Eyre Square in the centre of Galway: two platforms, trains to Dublin Heuston, Limerick and Athenry, a booking…

Taken by me, August 2007.
Landmark
Eyre Square

Eyre Square is the park at the heart of Galway, beside the railway station and the top of Shop Street: a medieval green given to the…

Spanish Arch in Galway An póirse caoch
Landmark
The Spanish Arch

The Spanish Arch and the Blind Arch are the two surviving arches of the wall built in 1584 to guard Galway's quays; the Eyres cut them…

Salthill and Galway Bay, Galway, Co. Galway, Ireland
Seaside
Salthill and the Prom

Salthill is Galway's seaside, two kilometres of promenade along Galway Bay south-west of the centre: bathing lodges from the 1830s, a…

Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas
Landmark
Galway Cathedral

Galway Cathedral, the Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas, was built of local limestone on the site of the old…

Galway City Museum
Museum
Galway City Museum

Galway City Museum stands behind the Spanish Arch in a purpose-built home opened in 2007: medieval stones from the Tribes' houses, the…

Eyre Square in 1974, before the square was remade and the cars moved out
Eyre Square in 1974, before the square was remade and the cars moved out
Klaus Liphard, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Then
Eyre Square today, Kennedy Park at its centre
Eyre Square today, Kennedy Park at its centre
Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Now
Food and drink

Where to eat in Galway

373 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 98 of them within 300 m of Eyre Square. 128 have hours on record.

  1. O’Connell’sPubs · Eyre Square
  2. Fibber Magee’sPubs · Eyre Square
  3. Gatto RossoRestaurants · Eyre Square
  4. Esquires CoffeeCafés · Eyre Square
  5. The SkeffPubs · Eyre Square
  6. Caffè NeroCafés · Eyre Square
  7. Jack J. Foley’sPubs · Eyre Square
  8. Dough BrosTakeaways · Eyre Square

Restaurants · Cafés · Takeaways · Pubs

Plan of Galway city centre with every place to eat marked

Every place to eat and drink as a pin; tap one for its page and directions.

Street by street

All 840 streets
  1. Tuam Road
    national road N83 · 7.0 km
    101 places
  2. Headford Road
    national road N84 · 5.8 km
    97 places
  3. Upper Salthill Road
    regional road R864 · 3.4 km
    70 places
  4. Glenrock Business Park
    service road · 597 m
    45 places
  5. Briarhill Business Park
    minor road · 649 m
    42 places
  6. Eyre Square
    regional road R336 · 496 m
    41 places
  7. High Street
    pedestrianised street L5143 · 100 m
    32 places
  8. Prospect Hill
    regional road R336 · 292 m
    30 places
  9. Western Distributor Road
    link road L1012 · 4.0 km
    29 places
  10. Dominick Street Lower
    minor road L5102 · 167 m
    28 places

Things to see around Galway

Quay Street
Quay Street
Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The banners of the Tribes
The banners of the Tribes
Suzanne Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Corrib at Wolfe Tone Bridge
The Corrib at Wolfe Tone Bridge
Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 9 ringforts and ancient sites and 3 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. Padraic O'Conaire StatueMonuments · 15 m
  2. Kennedy Park PlaygroundPlaygrounds · 17 m
  3. The Browne DoorwayMonuments · 55 m
  4. Eyre SquareParks · 62 m
  5. City WallsAttractions · 156 m
  6. Magdalene LaundryMonuments · 221 m
  7. Seán DugganMonuments · 249 m
  8. Lynch's CastleMonuments · 250 m
  9. Mechanics InstituteMonuments · 275 m

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells · Beaches · Hotels

Galway in pictures

Photographs of the place and the country around it, each from an open archive and credited to the person who took it.

Galway - River Corrib & Wolfe Tone Bridge
Galway - River Corrib & Wolfe Tone Bridge
Suzanne Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Quay Street, Galway
Quay Street, Galway
Ian Hawfinch, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Eyre Square Galway 1974
Eyre Square Galway 1974
Klaus Liphard, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Galway - Wolfe Tone Bridge & River Corrib
Galway - Wolfe Tone Bridge & River Corrib
Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Galway - River Corrib and Wolfe Tone Bridge
Galway - River Corrib and Wolfe Tone Bridge
Suzanne Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Galway - Musician, River Corrib, Wolfe Tone Bridge
Galway - Musician, River Corrib, Wolfe Tone Bridge
Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Galway - Quay Street - Street Musician
Galway - Quay Street - Street Musician
Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Galway - Quay Street, The Halls - Fat Freddy's
Galway - Quay Street, The Halls - Fat Freddy's
Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Galway - Eyre Square - Banners of Fourteen Tribes of Galway
Galway - Eyre Square - Banners of Fourteen Tribes of Galway
Suzanne Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Eyre Square, Galway
Eyre Square, Galway
Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Alongside the River Corrib in Galway
Alongside the River Corrib in Galway
Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Quay Street, Galway
Quay Street, Galway
Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Galway?
Galway city is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland and 185 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Galway?
85,910 people at the 2022 census, up from 79,934 in 2016.
Why is Galway called the City of the Tribes?
Because fourteen merchant families, twelve of Norman origin and two Irish, ran the walled town from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth. Their banners fly in Eyre Square and their names, Lynch, Blake, Browne, Martin and the rest, are on the streets.
What is there to do in Galway?
Walk the medieval streets from Eyre Square through Shop Street and Quay Street to the Spanish Arch; see St Nicholas' church, Lynch's Castle and the Hall of the Red Earl; cross the Corrib to the Claddagh and the cathedral; take the prom at Salthill; and, in July, the Film Fleadh and the Arts Festival, in August the Races.
What is the history of Galway?
A fort of 1124, a Norman capture in the 1230s, a charter and mayor in 1484, two centuries of merchant rule and trade with Spain, a Cromwellian siege of nine months, a Williamite capture in 1691, decline, the Queen's College and the railway in the 1840s and 1850s, and a rebirth as a university and festival city in the twentieth century.
What is the weather like in Galway today?
The weather page shows the live forecast for the centre, hour by hour for the next day and day by day for the week.

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.