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

Mountbellew, street by street

The Bellews' estate town on the N63, with a Tuesday market in a triangular square since the nineteenth century and the first agricultural college in Ireland.

Mountbellew is a town of 774 people, 42 km north-east of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 1,263 buildings stands on the map above, and 100 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 Mountbellew

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Mountbellew

42 km from Galway, 53 km from Knock, 2 bus stops, 1 car park.

See and do
Things to do

The demesne walks and lake, the forge, the malt house, St Mary's, the Ballinlass memorial.

Since 18th and 19th centuries
The history of Mountbellew

The Bellews, the Brothers of 1818, the market, the college of 1904, five county titles.

Facts
About the town

Population 774 at the 2022 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Mountbellew

6 restaurants, 4 pubs, 5 shops, 4 supermarkets and 2 pharmacies and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the Square first.

All 37 kinds of place

Guides to Mountbellew

All 1 guides
Food and drink

Where to eat in Mountbellew

10 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 9 of them within 300 m of the Square. 3 have hours on record.

  1. The Bridge BarPubs · The Square
  2. RomaTakeaways · Mountbellew Bridge
  3. Kelly’sCafés · The Square
  4. The Square KitchenRestaurants · The Square
  5. The HobTakeaways · R358
  6. The HawthornePubs · The Square
  7. Henry’sPubs · The Square
  8. The Malt HousePubs · The Square

Restaurants · Cafés · Takeaways · Pubs

Plan of Mountbellew 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. The Square
    minor road L7241 · 1.4 km
    7 places
  2. Mountbellew Bridge
    national road N63 · 39 m
    2 places
  3. Doire Glas
    residential street · 102 m
    1 place
  4. The Meadows
    residential street · 272 m
    1 place
  5. Treanrevagh
    residential street · 150 m
    1 place

Things to see around Mountbellew

New Fire Station Opened in Galway: The Connacht Tribune Saturday, October 20th, 1956 “The Minister for…
New Fire Station Opened in Galway: The Connacht Tribune Saturday, October 20th, 1956 “The Minister for…
William Murphy, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Statue of racehorse in Mountbellew.
Statue of racehorse in Mountbellew.
Sarah777, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Vintage day at Mountbellew Co Galway Ireland
Vintage day at Mountbellew Co Galway Ireland
John Healy, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 21 ringforts and ancient sites and 9 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. Mountbellew PlaygroundPlaygrounds · 424 m
  2. Old ForgeMuseums · 623 m
  3. Ballinlass Eviction MemorialMonuments · 3.7 km
  4. Castle Bellew HouseHistoric houses · 4.1 km
  5. Pollaneask TurloughLakes · 4.8 km
  6. Enda Colleran MemorialMonuments · 4.8 km
  7. Annagh LoughLakes · 5.3 km
  8. Lough NalareaghLakes · 5.3 km
  9. Moylough CastleCastles · 5.6 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells

Mountbellew in pictures

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

New Fire Station Opened in Galway: The Connacht Tribune Saturday, October 20th, 1956 “The Minister for…
New Fire Station Opened in Galway: The Connacht Tribune Saturday, October 20th, 1956 “The Minister for…
William Murphy, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Statue of racehorse in Mountbellew.
Statue of racehorse in Mountbellew.
Sarah777, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Vintage day at Mountbellew Co Galway Ireland
Vintage day at Mountbellew Co Galway Ireland
John Healy, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
New Fire Station Opened in Galway: The Connacht Tribune Saturday, October 20th, 1956 “The Minister for…
New Fire Station Opened in Galway: The Connacht Tribune Saturday, October 20th, 1956 “The Minister for…
William Murphy, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Bridge in Mountbellew Demense Woodland, east Co. Galway
Bridge in Mountbellew Demense Woodland, east Co. Galway
DeeEmm, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Coillte Offices, Mountbellew, east Co. Galway
Coillte Offices, Mountbellew, east Co. Galway
DeeEmm, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Milestone, Mountbellow
Milestone, Mountbellow
MilestoneSociety, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Mountbellew?
Mountbellew is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 42 km north-east of Galway city and 149 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Mountbellew?
774 people at the 2022 census.
How far is Mountbellew from Galway?
42 km in a straight line from the Square to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Mountbellew known for?
The Franciscan Brothers' agricultural college, the first in Ireland, the Tuesday market, the Bellew estate woods and lake, and Bobbyjo, the Grand National horse.
What is the weather like in Mountbellew 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.