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

Oranmore, street by street

The great spring on an inlet of Galway Bay, a Clanricarde tower house, a church turned library, and the Galway Shawl's own town.

Oranmore is a town of 5,819 people, 8 km east of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 2,481 buildings stands on the map above, and 262 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 Oranmore

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Oranmore

8 km from Galway, 36 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 3 bus stops, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

The castle, the old church, St Mary's library, Renville Park and the bay.

Since prehistory
The history of Oranmore

The great spring, the old church, the Clanricarde castle, St Mary's, the aerodrome.

Facts
About the town

Population 5,819 at the 2022 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Oranmore

21 restaurants, 6 pubs, 7 shops, 1 hairdressers and beauty and 8 supermarkets and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the centre first.

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

All 63 kinds of place

Guides to Oranmore

All 6 guides
Oranmore Castle
Song
The Galway Shawl

The Galway Shawl is the traditional courtship song set in Oranmore in May: a girl in a bonnet with ribbons and a Galway shawl, her…

Oranmore Castle
Food and drink
Galway Hooker Brewery

Galway Hooker Brewery in Oranmore was founded in 2006 by the cousins Aidan Murphy and Ronan Brennan, its name chosen by online…

2022–23 EPCR Challenge Cup, Round of 16, Benetton ‒ Connacht at Stadio comunale di Monigo, Treviso on April 1st, 2023
Sport
Bundee Aki

Bundee Aki, born Fua Leiofi Bundellu Aki in Ōtāhuhu, Auckland, on 7 April 1990, of Samoan descent, played for Counties Manukau and won…

The Oranmore Castle in Galway
Castle
Oranmore Castle

Oranmore Castle is the four-storey 15th-century tower house on the shore of Galway Bay that the Clanricardes held through the rebellion…

Level crossing at Oranmore This is the Athenry to Galway railway line, about six kilometres from its terminus in Galway. The N18 crosses the line here.
Transport
Oranmore railway station

Oranmore station at Garraun is a stop on the Dublin to Galway intercity and the Galway to Athenry, Athlone and Limerick commuter…

Oranmore Castle
Education
Calasanctius College

Calasanctius College is the co-educational secondary school for Oranmore, Carnmore, Claregalway, Clarinbridge, Kilcolgan and the south…

Food and drink

Where to eat in Oranmore

27 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 21 of them within 300 m of the centre. 7 have hours on record.

  1. PorterhousePubs · Main Street
  2. Urban PizzaTakeaways
  3. Oran TandooriRestaurants · Main Street
  4. Glynn’sPubs · Dublin Road
  5. Péarla na MaraRestaurants
  6. Giovannis OranmoreTakeaways · Main Street
  7. Supermac'sTakeaways · Main Street
  8. Delice Bakery and CoffeeCafés · Main Street

Restaurants · Cafés · Takeaways · Pubs

Plan of Oranmore 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 51 streets
  1. Main Street
    link road L71083 · 915 m
    26 places
  2. Deerpark Industrial Estate
    minor road L81081 · 548 m
    7 places
  3. Oranmore Business Park
    service road · 878 m
    6 places
  4. Station Road
    link road L71114 · 607 m
    6 places
  5. Bluebell Woods
    residential street · 1.9 km
    4 places
  6. Castle Road
    residential street · 315 m
    3 places
  7. Carrowmoneash
    residential street · 240 m
    2 places
  8. Carrowmoneash Roundabout
    national road N67 · 199 m
    2 places
  9. Abhainn na Rí
    residential street · 476 m
    1 place
  10. Cloch Óg
    residential street · 1.7 km
    1 place

Things to see around Oranmore

Panoramic view near Shanmuckinish Castle (Oranmore, County Galway, Ireland)
Panoramic view near Shanmuckinish Castle (Oranmore, County Galway, Ireland)
Einaz80, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Oranmore Bay A view across Oranmore Bay from Salthill.
Oranmore Bay A view across Oranmore Bay from Salthill.
Andrew Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Oranmore Castle
Oranmore Castle
Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 24 ringforts and ancient sites and 3 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. Oranmore CastleCastles · 456 m
  2. An Tobar Uarán MórRuins · 463 m
  3. LoughaunroneLakes · 1.7 km
  4. Rinville CastleCastles · 3.1 km
  5. North WoodWoods · 3.2 km
  6. Renville ParkParks · 3.3 km
  7. South WoodWoods · 3.3 km
  8. Stafort HouseRuins · 3.3 km
  9. PollacullaireLakes · 3.4 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells · Beaches · Hotels

Oranmore in pictures

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

Panoramic view near Shanmuckinish Castle (Oranmore, County Galway, Ireland)
Panoramic view near Shanmuckinish Castle (Oranmore, County Galway, Ireland)
Einaz80, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Oranmore Bay A view across Oranmore Bay from Salthill.
Oranmore Bay A view across Oranmore Bay from Salthill.
Andrew Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Oranmore Castle
Oranmore Castle
Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Oranmore Castle and quay
Oranmore Castle and quay
Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Oranmore Castle, a rectangular tower house by the sea, during low tide, under a cloudy sky.
Oranmore Castle, a rectangular tower house by the sea, during low tide, under a cloudy sky.
BdelosArcos, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Oranmore beach
Oranmore beach
Sheila1988, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A small medieval tower house located on the eastern side of Galway Bay (Oranmore, County Galway, Ireland)
A small medieval tower house located on the eastern side of Galway Bay (Oranmore, County Galway, Ireland)
Einaz80, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A small medieval tower house located on the eastern side of Galway Bay (Oranmore, County Galway, Ireland)
A small medieval tower house located on the eastern side of Galway Bay (Oranmore, County Galway, Ireland)
Einaz80, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Oranmore?
Oranmore is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 8 km east of Galway city and 177 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Oranmore?
5,819 people at the 2022 census.
How far is Oranmore from Galway?
8 km in a straight line from the centre to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Oranmore known for?
Its castle on the inlet of Galway Bay, the song The Galway Shawl, Galway Bay Golf Resort and sailing club at Renville, and being the first town east of the city on the M6.
What is the history of Oranmore?
A settlement named for a great spring, recorded by the Four Masters; a thirteenth-century church; the Clanricarde tower house of the 1400s; St Mary's of 1803, now the library; the Presentation convent of 1861; an RAF aerodrome in the First World War; and a commuter town of 5,819 people today.
What is the weather like in Oranmore 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.