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

Milltown, street by street

The town of the mill on the Clare, 11 km from Tuam, where the O'Flahertys burned half the village in 1589 and Easter Monday races drew Connacht for ninety years.

Milltown is a village of 207 people, 39 km north of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 657 buildings stands on the map above, and 102 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 Milltown

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Milltown

39 km from Galway, 33 km from Knock, 1 bus stop, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

The mill ruin, Millbrook, Askeevy, Kilcloony, Feartagar, Dalgin.

Since 1589
The history of Milltown

The O'Flahertys in 1589, the mills, the races, the station, the carnival.

Facts
About the town

Population 207 at the 2016 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Milltown

2 restaurants, 1 pubs, 2 shops, 2 supermarkets and 1 schools and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the bridge first.

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

All 22 kinds of place

Food and drink

Where to eat in Milltown

3 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 2 of them within 300 m of the bridge. 0 have hours on record.

  1. Sheridan's BarPubs
  2. Saman’s kebabsTakeaways
  3. Finn'sRestaurants

Restaurants · Takeaways · Pubs

Plan of Milltown 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 2 streets
  1. Milltown Clare River Walk
    footpath · 1.3 km
    1 place

Things to see around Milltown

Image of a Bridge in Ireland
Image of a Bridge in Ireland
Unknown photographer, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Dick Dowling Cottage, Milltown, Ireland
Dick Dowling Cottage, Milltown, Ireland
Rick Crowley, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Home in Milltown
Home in Milltown
Darrin Antrobus, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 45 ringforts and ancient sites and 9 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. Millbrook HouseRuins · 913 m
  2. Corn Mill (ruins)Ruins · 922 m
  3. Cloonalroon LakeLakes · 2.4 km
  4. Infants' Burial GroundWoods · 2.6 km
  5. Castlereach LoughLakes · 4.2 km
  6. Fartamore Castle (ruins)Castles · 4.4 km
  7. BelmountHistoric houses · 4.6 km
  8. LougharlaureenLakes · 5.6 km
  9. Feartagar CastleCastles · 5.7 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells

Milltown in pictures

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

Image of a Bridge in Ireland
Image of a Bridge in Ireland
Unknown photographer, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Dick Dowling Cottage, Milltown, Ireland
Dick Dowling Cottage, Milltown, Ireland
Rick Crowley, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Home in Milltown
Home in Milltown
Darrin Antrobus, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Milltown, Co Galway, Éire
Milltown, Co Galway, Éire
MaxPride, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Church at Miltown Malbay, County Clare
Church at Miltown Malbay, County Clare
GalwayGirl74, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
River lake
River lake
Fahim2cool, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Milltown?
Milltown is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 39 km north of Galway city and 177 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Milltown?
207 people at the 2016 census.
How far is Milltown from Galway?
39 km in a straight line from the bridge to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Milltown known for?
The two mills on the Clare, the Easter Monday races of 1877 to 1966, the attack of 1589, and the old station on the Tuam to Claremorris line.
What is the weather like in Milltown 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.