
Leenaun, street by street
The reef at the head of the sea, where the Maam Valley meets Killary Harbour, Ireland's deepest fjord, the village of The Field and of Martin McDonagh's plays.
Leenaun is a village of County Galway, 56 km north-west of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 233 buildings stands on the map above, and 133 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.


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


56 km from Galway, 43 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 1 bus stop, 0 car parks.


The fjord, the falls, the wool centre, the valley, the churches, Kylemore.


The bridge of 1825 and its loss in 2007, The Field, the ring barrow.


where it is, what is here.
What is in Leenaun
3 restaurants, 2 pubs, 1 shops, 2 supermarkets and 1 schools and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the bridge first.
- Restaurants3
- Pubs2
- Shops1
- Supermarkets2
- Schools1
- Banks1
- Hotels2
- Churches2
- Parks and views34
- Castles and heritage4
Guides to Leenaun
All 4 guides
Killary Harbour is the 16-km fjord between Galway and Mayo, up to 45 metres deep, with Mweelrea, Connacht's highest mountain, on its…
The Field, Jim Sheridan's 1990 film of John B. Keane's 1965 play, was shot almost entirely in Leenaun at the head of Killary Harbour:…

The Maumturks, Sléibhte Mhám Toirc, the mountains of the boar's pass, are the long straight range of quartzite peaks east of the Twelve…
Leenaun, An Líonán, the reef at the head of the sea, is the village of two pubs, a hotel, a sheep and wool museum and two churches on…
Where to eat in Leenaun
5 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 5 of them within 300 m of the bridge. 0 have hours on record.
- Hamilton’s BarPubs
- The Purple Door CaféCafés
- Gaynor’s PubPubs
- The Village GrillTakeaways
- Portfinn LodgeRestaurants · Clifden Road
Restaurants · Cafés · Takeaways · Pubs
Every place to eat and drink as a pin; tap one for its page and directions.
Street by street
All 0 streetsThe map names no street in Leenaun yet.
Things to see around Leenaun

Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

John Welford, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first and 1 holy well on their own pages.
- The Sheep And Wool Heritage CentreAttractions · 75 m
- WaterfallAttractions · 1.7 km
- Lugaharry LoughLakes · 3.0 km
- Fin LoughLakes · 5.1 km
- DernasliggaunLakes · 5.6 km
- Lough NambrackkeaghLakes · 5.8 km
- LoughanLakes · 5.9 km
- Lough SallaghLakes · 6.4 km
- Tawnyard LoughLakes · 6.5 km
Leenaun in pictures
Photographs of the place and the country around it, each from an open archive and credited to the person who took it.

Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

John Welford, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Lisa Harbin, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Questions people ask
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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.