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

Gort, street by street

King Guaire's island in the river, an O'Shaughnessy stronghold, Lord Gort's Georgian triangle, and the countryside where Yeats and Lady Gregory made a literary revival.

Gort is a town of 2,870 people, 28 km south-east of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 1,550 buildings stands on the map above, and 186 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 Gort

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Gort

28 km from Galway, 41 km from Shannon Airport, 3 bus stops, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

Coole Park, Thoor Ballylee, Kilmacduagh, the Gregory museum, the Square and the river walk.

Since 800 to 1200 bc
The history of Gort

Guaire's island, the O'Shaughnessys, Cromwell, Lord Gort's town, the Famine, Coole and Ballylee, 1920.

Facts
About the town

Population 2,870 at the 2022 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Gort

7 restaurants, 4 pubs, 1 shops, 3 hairdressers and beauty and 8 supermarkets and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the Square first.

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

All 41 kinds of place

Guides to Gort

All 11 guides
The Autograph Tree (a purple-leaved beech) in the walled garden at Coole Park, Co. Galway. The tree has initials carved into the trunk, including for example Ge
Park
Coole Park

Coole Park is a 1,000-acre nature reserve west of Gort: Lady Gregory's estate, where Yeats wrote The Wild Swans at Coole and the great…

Thoor Ballylee / Túr Bhaile Uí Laí This 16th-century tower house of the De Burgo (Burke) family was restored by William Butler Yeats as a retreat for himself an
Tower
Thoor Ballylee, Yeats's Tower

Thoor Ballylee is the 15th-century de Burgo tower house near Gort that W. B. Yeats bought in 1916 or 1917 and lived in: four rooms one…

Coole Park
Getting around
Gort railway station

Gort station opened in 1869, closed in 1976 and reopened in March 2010 as part of the Western Rail Corridor between Ennis and Athenry,…

East range of the Augustinian abbey of St. Mary de Petra, commonly called O'Heyne's Abbey after the founder.
Monastery
Kilmacduagh Monastery

Kilmacduagh, 5 km from Gort, is the ruined monastery St Colman founded in the 7th century on land from King Guaire: a cathedral, five…

Today we have a fine shot from the Stereo Pairs collection showing a "Toy" castle somewhere! These always remind me of AJ Cronins classic novel "Hatters Castle
Castle
Lough Cutra Castle

Lough Cutra Castle, 3 km south of Gort, was designed by John Nash for Colonel Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort, built from 1811 to…

Kiltartan (or Ballinamantain) Castle
Heritage
Kiltartan

Kiltartan, Cill Tartan, is the barony and civil parish around Gort named for the Burkes' ruined Kiltartan Castle: its south was…

Food and drink

Where to eat in Gort

11 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 8 of them within 300 m of the Square. 2 have hours on record.

  1. GalleryCafés · Lowry's Lane
  2. BrazzaTakeaways · Crowe Street
  3. O'DonnellsPubs · Bridge Street
  4. The GranaryRestaurants · Crowe Street
  5. Dicey O'ReillyPubs · Church Street
  6. The FieldRestaurants · Crowe Street
  7. Harte'sPubs · Bridge Street
  8. Supermac'sTakeaways · Bridge Street

Restaurants · Cafés · Takeaways · Pubs

Plan of Gort 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 40 streets
  1. Crowe Street
    regional road R380 · 1.1 km
    10 places
  2. Georges Street
    regional road R458 · 1.1 km
    6 places
  3. Bridge Street
    regional road R380 · 245 m
    5 places
  4. Church Street
    regional road R460 · 384 m
    2 places
  5. Kinincha Road
    minor road L85314 · 1.4 km
    2 places
  6. Bolands Lane
    minor road · 223 m
    1 place
  7. Church Road
    residential street · 146 m
    1 place
  8. Cobble Drive
    residential street · 74 m
    1 place
  9. Ennis Road
    regional road R458 · 252 m
    1 place
  10. Gort River Walk
    footpath · 592 m
    1 place

Things to see around Gort

Church Street Gort looking north
Church Street Gort looking north
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Church Street Gort, looking south
Church Street Gort, looking south
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Gort - Church Street
Gort - Church Street
Desmond Ryan, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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

  1. StablesRuins · 145 m
  2. Canon Quinn ParkParks · 148 m
  3. Ballynamantan LoughLakes · 1.9 km
  4. Beagh ChurchRuins · 2.3 km
  5. Old Beagh ChurchRuins · 2.3 km
  6. Kiltartan CastleCastles · 2.7 km
  7. Coole ParkWoods · 3.0 km
  8. Coole ParkAttractions · 3.1 km
  9. Coole LoughLakes · 3.1 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells · Hotels

Gort in pictures

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

Church Street Gort looking north
Church Street Gort looking north
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Church Street Gort, looking south
Church Street Gort, looking south
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Gort - Church Street
Gort - Church Street
Desmond Ryan, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Hennellys Bar & Off-licence, Georges Street, Gort
Hennellys Bar & Off-licence, Georges Street, Gort
P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A view from around 1900 of the main street in Gort, Co. Galway, Ireland
A view from around 1900 of the main street in Gort, Co. Galway, Ireland
Unknown authorUnknown author, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Kilmacduagh Monastery is a ruined abbey near Gort in County Galway, Ireland. It was the origin of the…
Kilmacduagh Monastery is a ruined abbey near Gort in County Galway, Ireland. It was the origin of the…
Michael Deligan, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Houses in Church Street, Gort
Houses in Church Street, Gort
Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Church Street, Gort, looking south from its junction with Garrabeg Road
Church Street, Gort, looking south from its junction with Garrabeg Road
Rod Grealish, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Gort?
Gort is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 28 km south-east of Galway city and 173 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Gort?
2,870 people at the 2022 census, up from 2,994 in 2016.
How far is Gort from Galway?
28 km in a straight line from the Square to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Gort known for?
Lady Gregory's Coole Park and Yeats's tower at Thoor Ballylee, the birthplace of the Irish Literary Revival; Kilmacduagh's round tower; its Georgian market square; hurling; and the Brazilian community that made it one of the most diverse towns in Ireland.
What is the history of Gort?
King Guaire's island residence in the seventh century, the O'Shaughnessy stronghold burned by Cromwell in 1652, Lord Gort's planned town of the late 1700s, the Famine that cost it a third of its people, the railway of 1869, the literary revival at Coole, the barracks years of 1920, and the Brazilian arrivals of the 2000s.
What is the weather like in Gort 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.