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

Kinvarra, street by street

A port at the head of its own bay in the corner of Galway Bay, an O'Hynes tower on the shore, and two festivals a year: the cuckoo in May, the boats in August.

Kinvarra is a village of 721 people, 17 km south-east of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 804 buildings stands on the map above, and 164 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 Kinvarra

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Kinvarra

17 km from Galway, 37 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 1 bus stop, 1 car park.

See and do
Things to do

Dunguaire, the churches, the windmill, Coole Park and Kilmacduagh beyond.

Since early times
The history of Kinvarra

O'Hynes country, the 1574 castle list, the Mass rock, the Terry Alts, emptying and filling again.

Facts
About the town

Population 721 at the 2022 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Kinvarra

6 restaurants, 7 pubs, 2 hairdressers and beauty, 3 supermarkets and 1 pharmacies and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the quay first.

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

All 46 kinds of place

Guides to Kinvarra

All 4 guides
Exterior of Dunguaire Castle in Galway
Castle
Dunguaire Castle

Dunguaire Castle is the 16th-century O'Hynes tower house on Galway Bay at Kinvara, named for King Guaire's fort, restored in the 1980s…

Landscape in the Burren, County Clare, Ireland
Landscape
The Burren

The Burren, Boirinn, the rocky district, is the 530-square-kilometre karst landscape inside the circle of Lisdoonvarna, Corofin, Gort…

Dunguaire Castle
Village
Kinvara

Kinvara, Cinn Mhara, the head of the sea, is the port village at the head of Kinvara Bay in the south-east corner of Galway Bay, in the…

Conor Whelan celebrating his goal for Kinvara against Castlegar in the 2013 Galway Senior Hurling Championship at Athenry
Sport
Conor Whelan

Conor Whelan, born 31 October 1996, plays right corner-forward for Kinvara and for Galway: a minor debut on 28 July 2013 and an…

Food and drink

Where to eat in Kinvarra

13 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 12 of them within 300 m of the quay. 0 have hours on record.

  1. Tully’sPubs · Main Street
  2. The Thatch BarPubs · Main Street
  3. ConolesPubs · Main Street
  4. Keogh’sBars · Main Street
  5. Fox's of KinvaraRestaurants
  6. Pier Head Bar and RestaurantRestaurants
  7. Wild BeansCafés
  8. Connolly’sPubs · The Quay

Restaurants · Cafés · Pubs

Plan of Kinvarra 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 14 streets
  1. Main Street
    national road N67 · 425 m
    22 places
  2. Glebe Road
    residential street L85707 · 175 m
    2 places
  3. Bealcuain
    residential street · 41 m
    1 place
  4. Dunguaire Cottages
    residential street · 140 m
    1 place

Things to see around Kinvarra

Buildings on Main Street, Kinvarra
Buildings on Main Street, Kinvarra
Ian Hawfinch, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kinvara Beach
Kinvara Beach
James Emmans, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kinvarra Bay - Buildings & Dwellings along The Quay
Kinvarra Bay - Buildings & Dwellings along The Quay
Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 23 ringforts and ancient sites and 7 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. Dunguaire CastleCastles · 940 m
  2. Cahererillan CastleCastles · 3.2 km
  3. Tawnagh WindmillRuins · 4.2 km
  4. Walled gardenGardens · 4.2 km
  5. Hermitage HouseRuins · 4.3 km
  6. Bridge LoughLakes · 4.3 km
  7. Lough AdoonaLakes · 4.5 km
  8. PollnamonaLakes · 5.3 km
  9. PolldalaghLakes · 5.4 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells · Hotels

Kinvarra in pictures

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

Buildings on Main Street, Kinvarra
Buildings on Main Street, Kinvarra
Ian Hawfinch, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kinvara Beach
Kinvara Beach
James Emmans, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kinvarra Bay - Buildings & Dwellings along The Quay
Kinvarra Bay - Buildings & Dwellings along The Quay
Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
North from Dunguaire Castle
North from Dunguaire Castle
Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
County Galway - Kinvarra Town Harbour along N67
County Galway - Kinvarra Town Harbour along N67
Suzanne Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
County Galway - Kinvarra Harbour Area Buildings off N67
County Galway - Kinvarra Harbour Area Buildings off N67
Suzanne Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Dungory (Dunquaire) Castle, Kinvarra
Dungory (Dunquaire) Castle, Kinvarra
Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Coastline near Dunguaire Castle
Coastline near Dunguaire Castle
N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Kinvarra?
Kinvarra is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 17 km south-east of Galway city and 180 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Kinvarra?
721 people at the 2022 census.
How far is Kinvarra from Galway?
17 km in a straight line from the quay to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Kinvara known for?
Dunguaire Castle, the hookers of Cruinniú na mBád in August, the cuckoo fleadh in May, and a harbour village at the corner of Galway Bay next to the Burren.
What is the weather like in Kinvarra 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.