Skip to content
GalwayOnFoot.ieMonivea
The 3D model of Monivea: every building standing up, with the shops and services pinned

Monivea, street by street

The Ffrenches' linen village, its greens laid out to dry the flax, with the castle, the mausoleum and the forest they left to the State, 9 km from Athenry.

Monivea is a village of 456 people, 26 km north-east of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 333 buildings stands on the map above, and 79 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 Monivea

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Monivea

26 km from Galway, 53 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 0 bus stops, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

The castle, the mausoleum, the woods, the old church, the greens, Knockmoy.

Since early times
The history of Monivea

Soghain, the Ffrenches from 1609, Robert Ffrench's linen, the church of 1762, the gift to the State.

Facts
About the town

Population 456 at the 2022 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Monivea

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

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

All 30 kinds of place

Guides to Monivea

All 1 guides
Monivea Castle from the north east. The building to the right is the original Anglo-Norman tower house, while the main part of the later mansion, which was loca
Castle
Monivea Castle

Monivea Castle, Caisleán Mhuine Mheá, is the former O'Kelly tower house that the ffrench family, one of the Tribes of Galway, made the…

Food and drink

Where to eat in Monivea

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

  1. Little Bake HouseCafés · Galway Road
  2. Patrick Kelly's Bar & LoungePubs
  3. Vaughan's Woodside BarPubs · Galway Road
  4. Ffrench's BarPubs
  5. Moran's BarPubs

Cafés · Pubs

Plan of Monivea 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 5 streets
  1. Galway Road
    regional road R339 · 2.2 km
    11 places

Things to see around Monivea

Castles of Connacht: Monivea, Galway
Castles of Connacht: Monivea, Galway
Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Monivea Road, Galway
Monivea Road, Galway
Darrin Antrobus, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Monivea gas station
Monivea gas station
fabiolah, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 7 ringforts and ancient sites and 5 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. Monivea PlaygroundPlaygrounds · 141 m
  2. Monivea CastleCastles · 1.6 km
  3. Killaclogher CastleCastles · 2.3 km
  4. CashlaundarraghCastles · 3.0 km
  5. Lough KennyLakes · 3.3 km
  6. Belleville CastleCastles · 4.9 km
  7. Clooncurreen CastleCastles · 5.1 km
  8. The HazelWoods · 5.3 km
  9. The Old HouseRuins · 5.5 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells

Monivea in pictures

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

Castles of Connacht: Monivea, Galway
Castles of Connacht: Monivea, Galway
Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Monivea Road, Galway
Monivea Road, Galway
Darrin Antrobus, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Monivea gas station
Monivea gas station
fabiolah, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Monivea Garda station
Monivea Garda station
fabiolah, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ground floor of the ffrench Mausoleum, Monivea, County Galway
Ground floor of the ffrench Mausoleum, Monivea, County Galway
DeeEmm, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Welcome to Monivea
Welcome to Monivea
fabiolah, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
1800s Burial Mausoleum of the fFrench Family Monivea
1800s Burial Mausoleum of the fFrench Family Monivea
MichealCoughlan, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Entrance alley of Monivea arboretum
Entrance alley of Monivea arboretum
fabiolah, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Monivea?
Monivea is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 26 km north-east of Galway city and 162 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Monivea?
456 people at the 2022 census.
How far is Monivea from Galway?
26 km in a straight line from the green to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Monivea known for?
The Ffrenches, their castle, mausoleum and forest, and the greens laid out in the 1700s to dry linen.
What is the weather like in Monivea 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.