The history of Moycullen
The Clifden line, the hurlers, the All-Ireland, the county titles, the growing village. 6 moments, in order.
- 1895 to 1935
The railway
The Midland Great Western opened Moycullen station on 1 January 1895 on the Galway to Clifden line; the Great Southern closed station and line on 29 April 1935.
- 1964 and 2011
Hurling
The hurlers won the intermediate county championship in both years, and in 2011 went on to the Connacht title.
- 2008
All-Ireland
The footballers won the All-Ireland intermediate club championship.
- 2009 and 2017
Basketball and the women
Moycullen won the basketball President's Cup in 2009, and the women's football team the Connacht intermediate club championship in 2017.
- 2020 and 2022
County champions
The footballers won the Galway senior championship for the first time in 2020 and again in 2022.
- 2022
A satellite of the city
The census counted 2,279 people, up 33.7 per cent on 2016, in a village close to Galway whose residents commute to the city. It is a category C Gaeltacht area: Irish has not been the everyday language here for many years.
Where this comes from
Every paragraph above summarises a statement in Wikipedia, "Moycullen", licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, as it read on 2026-09-19. Follow it for the footnotes. Nothing has been added from memory.