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

Kilcolgan, street by street

Colgan's church at the mouth of its river on Dunkellin Bay, with an oyster cottage of the 1760s, a Gothic Revival castle, and St Sourney's site with its eleventh-century door.

Kilcolgan is a village of 194 people, 14 km south-east of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 269 buildings stands on the map above, and 121 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 Kilcolgan

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Kilcolgan

14 km from Galway, 40 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 0 bus stops, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

St Sourney's, Tyrone House, the castle, the bridge, Kiltiernan, Moran's.

Since 6th century
The history of Kilcolgan

St Sourney, the oyster cottage of the 1760s, the bridge, a census town since 2016.

Facts
About the town

Population 194 at the 2022 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Kilcolgan

5 restaurants, 2 pubs, 2 shops, 2 hairdressers and beauty and 2 supermarkets and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the bridge first.

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

All 32 kinds of place

Food and drink

Where to eat in Kilcolgan

7 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 6 of them within 300 m of the bridge. 1 have hours on record.

  1. O'Donoghues BarPubs
  2. Mother HubbardsTakeaways
  3. Oriental TakeawayTakeaways
  4. Roots Café & BistroCafés
  5. Raftery's RestPubs
  6. The Poets CornerRestaurants
  7. Moran's Oyster CottageRestaurants

Restaurants · Cafés · Takeaways · Pubs

Plan of Kilcolgan 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 Kilcolgan

Kilcolgan Castle, Kilcolgan, County Galway, Ireland, viewed across the Kilcolgan River
Kilcolgan Castle, Kilcolgan, County Galway, Ireland, viewed across the Kilcolgan River
Drow69, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kilcolgan River
Kilcolgan River
Robert Bone, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Mother Hubbard's Restaurant, Kilcolgan
Mother Hubbard's Restaurant, Kilcolgan
Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 28 ringforts and ancient sites and 2 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. Dunkellin EstuaryLakes · 1.1 km
  2. Kilcornan ForestWoods · 2.2 km
  3. The GreenParks · 2.5 km
  4. Tyrone HouseRuins · 2.8 km
  5. Tullaghnafrankagh LoughLakes · 2.9 km
  6. Loughaun WoodWoods · 3.0 km
  7. Kilcornan WoodWoods · 3.3 km
  8. Laghtgal MonumentMonuments · 4.5 km
  9. Rahasane House (ruins)Ruins · 5.3 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells

Kilcolgan in pictures

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

Kilcolgan Castle, Kilcolgan, County Galway, Ireland, viewed across the Kilcolgan River
Kilcolgan Castle, Kilcolgan, County Galway, Ireland, viewed across the Kilcolgan River
Drow69, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kilcolgan River
Kilcolgan River
Robert Bone, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Mother Hubbard's Restaurant, Kilcolgan
Mother Hubbard's Restaurant, Kilcolgan
Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
O'Donoghues Pub, Kilcolgan
O'Donoghues Pub, Kilcolgan
Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Road Signs in Kilcolgan at junction of N18 & N67 & Qbeauty Salon
Road Signs in Kilcolgan at junction of N18 & N67 & Qbeauty Salon
Suzanne Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
County Galway -Very Small Building along N67 between Kilcolgan & Kinvarra
County Galway -Very Small Building along N67 between Kilcolgan & Kinvarra
Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
N67 entering Kilcolgan
N67 entering Kilcolgan
N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Petrol station and businesses along N18, Kilcolgan
Petrol station and businesses along N18, Kilcolgan
Darrin Antrobus, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Kilcolgan?
Kilcolgan is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 14 km south-east of Galway city and 174 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Kilcolgan?
194 people at the 2022 census.
How far is Kilcolgan from Galway?
14 km in a straight line from the bridge to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Kilcolgan known for?
Moran's Oyster Cottage, St Sourney's church and Betjeman's mausoleum, Tyrone House, and the old stone bridge.
What is the weather like in Kilcolgan 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.