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

Rosmuc, street by street

The peninsula of rounded hills, halfway between Galway and Clifden, where Patrick Pearse built his cottage in 1909 and wrote the O'Donovan Rossa oration, in a district where nine in ten adults speak Irish every day.

Rosmuc is a village of County Galway, 39 km west of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 535 buildings stands on the map above, and 204 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 Rosmuc

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Rosmuc

39 km from Galway, 17 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 0 bus stops, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

Pearse's cottage, Fáinne Chamuis, the church, the hills.

Since 400
The history of Rosmuc

Settlers of 400, Pearse from 1903, the oration of 1915, Ó Conaire, Mise.

Facts
About the town

where it is, what is here.

What is in Rosmuc

2 schools, 2 churches, 170 parks and views and 6 castles and heritage and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the church first.

Community
Things to see

All 12 kinds of place

Street by street

All 0 streets

The map names no street in Rosmuc yet.

Things to see around Rosmuc

Pearse's Cottage, Gortmore, Rosmuc. Gallaimh.
Pearse's Cottage, Gortmore, Rosmuc. Gallaimh.
Ray4mondo, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
I took this during our annual camera club trip, which in 2014 was to Connemara. It was such a peaceful spot.
I took this during our annual camera club trip, which in 2014 was to Connemara. It was such a peaceful spot.
Digital Eye, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Rosmuck Quay
Rosmuck Quay
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 1 ringfort and ancient site and 2 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. Loch na LannachLakes · 3.0 km
  2. Loch OiriúlachLakes · 3.6 km
  3. Teach an PhiarsaighHistoric houses · 3.7 km
  4. Fáinne ChamuisAttractions · 3.7 km
  5. ClarkesRuins · 4.0 km
  6. Loch an OileáinínLakes · 4.2 km
  7. Loch an AibhnínLakes · 4.2 km
  8. Loch an NíocháinLakes · 4.3 km
  9. Loch an UltóraLakes · 4.5 km

Ringforts · Holy wells · Beaches

Rosmuc in pictures

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

Pearse's Cottage, Gortmore, Rosmuc. Gallaimh.
Pearse's Cottage, Gortmore, Rosmuc. Gallaimh.
Ray4mondo, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
I took this during our annual camera club trip, which in 2014 was to Connemara. It was such a peaceful spot.
I took this during our annual camera club trip, which in 2014 was to Connemara. It was such a peaceful spot.
Digital Eye, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Rosmuck Quay
Rosmuck Quay
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Pearses Cottage Turlough
Pearses Cottage Turlough
Ag Smaoineamh, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Slipway at the end of the road, near to Kilbrickan and Ros Muc, Galway, Ireland. This road ends rather…
Slipway at the end of the road, near to Kilbrickan and Ros Muc, Galway, Ireland. This road ends rather…
Jonathan Wilkins, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ruin by the shore
Ruin by the shore
Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Cellar Rosmuc Co Galway
Cellar Rosmuc Co Galway
John Aidan Cawley, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Rosmuc?
Rosmuc is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 39 km west of Galway city and 223 km west of Dublin.
How far is Rosmuc from Galway?
39 km in a straight line from the church to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Rosmuc known for?
Pearse's cottage, the writers Pádraic Ó Conaire and Colm Ó Gaora, and one of the highest rates of daily Irish in the country.
What is the weather like in Rosmuc 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.