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

Portumna, street by street

The landing place of the oak where the Shannon opens into Lough Derg: a Clanricarde house of 1618, a workhouse that tells the whole story, a forest of 1,500 acres and the biggest swing bridge in Europe.

Portumna is a town of 1,690 people, 59 km east of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 1,363 buildings stands on the map above, and 99 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 Portumna

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Portumna

59 km from Galway, 64 km from Shannon Airport, 1 bus stop, 2 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

The castle and gardens, the forest park, the workhouse centre, the bridge, the harbours and the Hymany Way.

Since before 1618
The history of Portumna

Clanricarde's house, the fire, the workhouse, the Land War, the swing bridge, the forest park.

Facts
About the town

Population 1,690 at the 2022 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Portumna

7 restaurants, 4 pubs, 2 shops, 3 supermarkets and 1 pharmacies 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 39 kinds of place

Guides to Portumna

All 7 guides
Co. Galway Ireland, Feb. 2007. Danny Burke
Castle
Portumna Castle

Portumna Castle is the semi-fortified house Richard Burke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde, built between about 1610 and 1617 for 10,000 pounds…

Lough Derg
Lake
Lough Derg

Lough Derg, the Dagda's red eye, is the Shannon's largest lake and Ireland's third: 130 square kilometres, 36 metres deep, 38.6 km…

Co. Galway Ireland, Feb. 2007. Danny Burke
Abbey
Portumna Abbey

Portumna Abbey, 500 metres south of the town centre beside Portumna Castle on the shore of Lough Derg, began as a Cistercian chapel of…

Joe Canning playing for Portumna v St. Thomas' in the 2013 Galway Senior Hurling Semi-final in Athenry
People
Joe Canning

Joe Canning, born in Portumna on 11 October 1988, is regarded as one of the greatest hurlers ever: 14 seasons with Galway, five…

Co. Galway Ireland, Feb. 2007. Danny Burke
Transport
The N65, N67 and N63 roads

Three national secondary roads serve east and south Galway: the 52.5 km N65 from Borrisokane in Tipperary over Portumna bridge on the…

Croke Park St Patrick's Day 2010
Sport
Portumna GAA

Portumna GAA, founded in 1888 on the Galway and Tipperary border, played football first and hurling from 1910, won the county junior…

Food and drink

Where to eat in Portumna

11 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 10 of them within 300 m of the centre. 0 have hours on record.

  1. Horan's Corner HousePubs · Saint Brendan's Street
  2. Golden CityRestaurants · Saint Brendan's Street
  3. The Boathouse BarPubs · Saint Brendan's Street
  4. Roma Take Away RestaurantTakeaways · Saint Patrick Street
  5. Cafe RoseCafés · Clonfert Avenue
  6. Supermac'sTakeaways · Saint Brendan's Street
  7. Curley's BarPubs · Saint Brendan's Street
  8. An CaisleánPubs · Saint Brendan's Street

Restaurants · Cafés · Takeaways · Pubs

Plan of Portumna 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 28 streets
  1. Saint Brendan's Street
    national road N65 · 267 m
    10 places
  2. Clonfert Avenue
    national road N65 · 564 m
    7 places
  3. St Brendan's Road
    national road N65 · 751 m
    4 places
  4. Bridge Road
    residential street N65 · 846 m
    2 places
  5. Dominic Street
    link road L4327 · 611 m
    2 places
  6. Saint Patrick Street
    link road · 156 m
    2 places
  7. Abbey Street
    link road · 229 m
    1 place
  8. Castle Avenue
    link road L4326 · 224 m
    1 place
  9. Dunkellin Terrace
    link road L4328 · 208 m
    1 place
  10. Hymany Way
    service road · 3.1 km
    1 place

Things to see around Portumna

Castle Avenue, Portumna, Co. Galway
Castle Avenue, Portumna, Co. Galway
P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Abbey Street, Portumna, Co. Galway
Abbey Street, Portumna, Co. Galway
P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Co. Galway Ireland, Feb. 2007. Danny Burke
Co. Galway Ireland, Feb. 2007. Danny Burke
No machine-readable author provided. Bogman assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 4 ringforts and ancient sites and 3 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. Gate HouseCastles · 508 m
  2. Portumna Castle and GardensAttractions · 566 m
  3. Portumna CastleCastles · 660 m
  4. Portumna FriaryAbbeys · 702 m
  5. Roach IslandWoods · 1.2 km
  6. SpindillaunWoods · 1.2 km
  7. Burke's IslandWoods · 1.4 km
  8. Windmill (ruins)Ruins · 2.3 km
  9. Church (ruins)Ruins · 2.6 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells

Portumna in pictures

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

Castle Avenue, Portumna, Co. Galway
Castle Avenue, Portumna, Co. Galway
P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Abbey Street, Portumna, Co. Galway
Abbey Street, Portumna, Co. Galway
P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Co. Galway Ireland, Feb. 2007. Danny Burke
Co. Galway Ireland, Feb. 2007. Danny Burke
No machine-readable author provided. Bogman assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons
The walled kitchen garden, Portumna Castle
The walled kitchen garden, Portumna Castle
David P Howard, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Portumna Harbour, Co. Galway
Portumna Harbour, Co. Galway
P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Giant chess game at Portumna Castle, Co. Galway
Giant chess game at Portumna Castle, Co. Galway
Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Portumna Castle Portumna Castle, really a fortified grand house, was built between 1610 and 1618 at a cost…
Portumna Castle Portumna Castle, really a fortified grand house, was built between 1610 and 1618 at a cost…
C O'Flanagan, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Portumna Castle, Co Galway
Portumna Castle, Co Galway
Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Portumna?
Portumna is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 59 km east of Galway city and 133 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Portumna?
1,690 people at the 2022 census.
How far is Portumna from Galway?
59 km in a straight line from the centre to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Portumna known for?
Portumna Castle of 1618, the forest park on Lough Derg, the Irish Workhouse Centre, the 1911 swing bridge over the Shannon, four All-Ireland club hurling titles, and the Land War, which began here in 1886.
What is the history of Portumna?
A crossing of the Shannon with a long history of ferries and bridges, the seat of the Clanricarde Burkes from before 1618 until the fire of 1826, a workhouse from 1850, the start of the Land War in 1886, the steel bridge of 1911, the state's purchase of the forest in 1948, and the hurling years since 2006.
What is the weather like in Portumna 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.