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

Moylough, street by street

The plain of the lake, 5 km from Mountbellew, with a Norman tower house of the 1200s and a statue of Enda Colleran in the middle of the village.

Moylough is a village of 518 people, 40 km north-east of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 703 buildings stands on the map above, and 62 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 Moylough

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Moylough

40 km from Galway, 50 km from Knock, 3 bus stops, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

The Colleran statue, the castle, Castle Bellew, the forge, Ballinlass.

Since early times
The history of Moylough

Soghain, the castle of the 1200s, the church of 1830, the posthumous MP, Elliant.

Facts
About the town

Population 518 at the 2016 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Moylough

2 pubs, 1 shops, 2 supermarkets, 3 schools and 2 banks and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the village first.

All 19 kinds of place

Food and drink

Where to eat in Moylough

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

  1. Cheevers BarPubs · Main Street
  2. The ForgePubs · Main Street

Pubs

Plan of Moylough 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 8 streets
  1. Main Street
    national road N63 · 820 m
    9 places
  2. Kilkerrin Road
    regional road R364 · 1.7 km
    1 place
  3. The Orchard
    residential street · 548 m
    1 place

Things to see around Moylough

Bobbyjo from Moylough
Bobbyjo from Moylough
Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Joe Bergin in action for Mountbellew-Moylough in the 2015 Galway Senior Football Championship final at…
Joe Bergin in action for Mountbellew-Moylough in the 2015 Galway Senior Football Championship final at…
Seaninryan, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Connacht: Moylough, Galway
Castles of Connacht: Moylough, Galway
Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 6 ringforts and ancient sites and 6 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. Enda Colleran MemorialMonuments · 8 m
  2. Moylough CastleCastles · 838 m
  3. Annagh LoughLakes · 2.0 km
  4. Lough NalareaghLakes · 2.1 km
  5. Summerville LoughLakes · 2.1 km
  6. Castle Bellew HouseHistoric houses · 2.3 km
  7. Creggauns LoughLakes · 2.6 km
  8. Turloùgh QuinnLakes · 3.3 km
  9. Attidavock LoughLakes · 4.0 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells

Questions people ask

Where is Moylough?
Moylough is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 40 km north-east of Galway city and 154 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Moylough?
518 people at the 2016 census.
How far is Moylough from Galway?
40 km in a straight line from the village to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Moylough known for?
Enda Colleran's statue, the Norman tower house, Eddie O'Sullivan, and Thomas Higgins, elected to Westminster after his death.
What is the weather like in Moylough 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.