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

Garrafrauns, street by street

A church, a school, a garage and a hall in a townland of 202 acres four miles from Dunmore, with a thatched mill of 1842 and a heritage group that wrote the place's book.

Garrafrauns is a village of County Galway, 43 km north of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 581 buildings stands on the map above, and 90 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 Garrafrauns

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Garrafrauns

43 km from Galway, 31 km from Knock, 0 bus stops, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

St Patrick's, the mill, Strawberry Hill, Dunmore Castle, Kilcloony.

Since 1820
The history of Garrafrauns

The thatched church of 1820, the mill, the church of 1913, the school, the book.

Facts
About the town

where it is, what is here.

What is in Garrafrauns

3 pubs, 1 schools, 1 banks, 1 petrol and 9 churches and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the church first.

All 15 kinds of place

Food and drink

Where to eat in Garrafrauns

3 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 3 of them within 300 m of the church. 0 have hours on record.

  1. Lally’s Welcome InnPubs · R328
  2. Joe’sPubs
  3. The White HousePubs

Pubs

Plan of Garrafrauns 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 1 streets

The map names 1 road here but records no shop on any of them yet.

Things to see around Garrafrauns

St Patrick's Church, Garrafrauns, exterior
St Patrick's Church, Garrafrauns, exterior
ClintMalpaso, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Easterly facing view of Garrafrauns village, along R328 road
Easterly facing view of Garrafrauns village, along R328 road
ClintMalpaso, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Old church ruins
Old church ruins
ClintMalpaso, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 45 ringforts and ancient sites and 6 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. Infants' Burial GroundWoods · 3.1 km
  2. Strawberry HillRuins · 4.3 km
  3. Dunmore CastleCastles · 4.6 km
  4. Corn Mill (ruins)Ruins · 4.6 km
  5. Millbrook HouseRuins · 4.9 km
  6. Cloonalroon LakeLakes · 4.9 km
  7. Castlereach LoughLakes · 5.2 km
  8. Dunmore HouseHistoric houses · 5.6 km
  9. Castletown HouseHistoric houses · 7.5 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells

Garrafrauns in pictures

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

St Patrick's Church, Garrafrauns, exterior
St Patrick's Church, Garrafrauns, exterior
ClintMalpaso, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Easterly facing view of Garrafrauns village, along R328 road
Easterly facing view of Garrafrauns village, along R328 road
ClintMalpaso, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Old church ruins
Old church ruins
ClintMalpaso, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
St Patrick's church, Garrafrauns
St Patrick's church, Garrafrauns
David Purchase, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The R328 nearing Garrafrauns
The R328 nearing Garrafrauns
David Purchase, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The R328 in Garrafrauns
The R328 in Garrafrauns
David Purchase, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Statue, St Patricks Church grounds, Garrafrauns
Statue, St Patricks Church grounds, Garrafrauns
ClintMalpaso, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Garrafrauns?
Garrafrauns is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 43 km north of Galway city and 172 km west of Dublin.
How far is Garrafrauns from Galway?
43 km in a straight line from the church to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Garrafrauns known for?
Heverin's thatched mill of 1842, St Patrick's church of 1913, and a village heritage group that wrote its own history.
What is the weather like in Garrafrauns 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.