
Rossaveel, street by street
The peninsula of the whale, the main ferry port for the Aran Islands, west of Galway in the barony of Moycullen.
Rossaveel is a village of County Galway, 33 km west of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 399 buildings stands on the map above, and 153 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.


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


33 km from Galway, 7 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 1 bus stop, 0 car parks.


The harbour, the island church, the salt house, the garden.


A ferry port of 208 people, three quarters of them Irish speakers.


where it is, what is here.
What is in Rossaveel
1 restaurants, 1 pubs, 1 supermarkets, 2 schools and 1 gyms and sport and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the harbour first.
- Restaurants1
- Pubs1
- Supermarkets1
- Schools2
- Gyms and sport1
- Hotels1
- Churches2
- Parks and views114
- Castles and heritage4
Guides to Rossaveel
All 1 guidesWhere to eat in Rossaveel
2 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 0 of them within 300 m of the harbour. 1 have hours on record.
- Tigh Terry An ChéibhPubs
- Blas Na MaraRestaurants
Every place to eat and drink as a pin; tap one for its page and directions.
Street by street
All 1 streetsThe map names 1 road here but records no shop on any of them yet.
Things to see around Rossaveel

Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first and 2 holy wells on their own pages.
- Loch Ros an MhílLakes · 874 m
- LoughaunibLakes · 1.9 km
- Loch an FhiolairLakes · 2.0 km
- Loch Ghlas SticínLakes · 2.2 km
- Loch an tSáileLakes · 2.3 km
- Loch Fada CrosáinLakes · 2.4 km
- Loch Dhoire an FhéichLakes · 2.4 km
- Loch Uí ChadhainLakes · 2.5 km
- Loch na hÓigeLakes · 2.7 km
Rossaveel in pictures
Photographs of the place and the country around it, each from an open archive and credited to the person who took it.

Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Questions people ask
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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.