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

Headford, street by street

A lace-making landlord's town by the Black River, with cairns, stone forts and castles all round it and Ross Errilly, the best-kept friary ruin in Ireland, two kilometres away.

Headford is a town of 1,235 people, 22 km north of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 1,493 buildings stands on the map above, and 128 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 Headford

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Headford

22 km from Galway, 36 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 3 bus stops, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

Ross Errilly, Killursa, the castle demesne, Kilcoona's round tower, Greenfields harbour.

Since prehistory to the iron age
The history of Headford

Cairns and forts, the friary, the St Georges, Lewis's neat town of 1837, the lace.

Facts
About the town

Population 1,235 at the 2022 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Headford

3 restaurants, 2 pubs, 1 shops, 4 supermarkets and 1 doctors and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the centre first.

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

All 29 kinds of place

Guides to Headford

All 3 guides
Aerial photograph of the Ross Errilly Friary, May 2019
Friary
Ross Errilly Friary

Ross Errilly is the Franciscan friary on the Black River a mile from Headford, founded about 1460, evicted and reoccupied for three…

Ross Errilly Friary
Town
Headford

Headford, Áth Cinn, 26 km north of Galway on the N84 beside the Black River that marks the Mayo border, is the angling centre for the…

Ross Errilly Friary
Transport
The N84 through Headford

The N84 is the national secondary road from Galway to Castlebar through Cloonboo, Headford, Shrule, Kilmaine, Ballinrobe and Partry: a…

Food and drink

Where to eat in Headford

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

  1. T.F VarleyPubs · Saint Mary’s Road
  2. The SunflowerCafés · Main Street
  3. Supermac'sTakeaways
  4. InsomniaCafés
  5. Campbells TavernPubs

Cafés · Takeaways · Pubs

Plan of Headford 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 13 streets
  1. Main Street
    national road N84 · 410 m
    4 places
  2. Eallagh
    residential street · 766 m
    2 places
  3. Bridge Street
    national road N84 · 145 m
    1 place
  4. Cloister Walk
    footpath · 32 m
    1 place

Things to see around Headford

Headford Road (N6)
Headford Road (N6)
David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
N84, Headford Road
N84, Headford Road
David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Connacht: Headford, Galway
Castles of Connacht: Headford, Galway
Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 49 ringforts and ancient sites and 10 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. Headford CastleCastles · 521 m
  2. Lough TurraeLakes · 1.7 km
  3. Ross Errilly FriaryAbbeys · 2.0 km
  4. Cloghanower Castle (ruins)Castles · 2.3 km
  5. Moyne CastleCastles · 2.3 km
  6. Kinlough CastleCastles · 3.3 km
  7. TurloughcorLakes · 4.4 km
  8. BallynacreggaWoods · 4.5 km
  9. Lough HacketLakes · 4.6 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells · Hotels

Headford in pictures

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

Headford Road (N6)
Headford Road (N6)
David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
N84, Headford Road
N84, Headford Road
David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Connacht: Headford, Galway
Castles of Connacht: Headford, Galway
Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Bus stop on Headford Road
Bus stop on Headford Road
David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
We are staying in the West of the Country with this lovely shop from the Wynne Album. The technical name…
We are staying in the West of the Country with this lovely shop from the Wynne Album. The technical name…
National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
Carrowbrowne, Emo filling station on Headford Road
Carrowbrowne, Emo filling station on Headford Road
David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Headford, main street
Headford, main street
Robert Bone, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
N84 between Headford and Galway
N84 between Headford and Galway
David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Headford?
Headford is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 22 km north of Galway city and 189 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Headford?
1,235 people at the 2022 census.
How far is Headford from Galway?
22 km in a straight line from the centre to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Headford known for?
Ross Errilly Friary, angling on the Corrib and the Black River, its lace, and being the market town the St Georges improved in the nineteenth century.
What is the weather like in Headford 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.