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

Rosscahill, street by street

A village on the N59 between Galway and Oughterard, with Aughnanure Castle and Brigit's Garden a few minutes either side of it.

Rosscahill is a town of 306 people, 18 km north-west of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 1,479 buildings stands on the map above, and 110 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 Rosscahill

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Rosscahill

18 km from Galway, 23 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 6 bus stops, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

Brigit's Garden, Aughnanure, Ross Lake, Annaghkeen, the marble works.

Since 2016
The history of Rosscahill

A village of 306 people on the Clifden road.

Facts
About the town

Population 306 at the 2016 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Rosscahill

4 churches, 92 parks and views and 13 castles and heritage and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the crossroads first.

Community
Things to see

All 13 kinds of place

Guides to Rosscahill

All 1 guides
Sport
Kevin Walsh

Kevin Walsh, born in Galway on 5 November 1969, was the midfielder of Galway's All-Ireland football wins of 1998 and 2001 with three…

Street by street

All 1 streets

The map names 1 road here but records no shop on any of them yet.

Things to see around Rosscahill

N59, Rosscahill Woods
N59, Rosscahill Woods
N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
N59 at Rosscahill
N59 at Rosscahill
David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Rosscahill, Clifden Road
Rosscahill, Clifden Road
David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first and 1 holy well on their own pages.

  1. Lough NaneevinLakes · 1.1 km
  2. Annagh WoodWoods · 1.6 km
  3. Lough DollougLakes · 1.7 km
  4. Lough AleenLakes · 1.9 km
  5. Loch CaitLakes · 2.1 km
  6. An Loch BeagLakes · 2.1 km
  7. Brigit's GardenAttractions · 2.2 km
  8. Lochán na Muc MórLakes · 2.3 km
  9. Carrowndulla LoughLakes · 2.7 km

Castles · Holy wells

Questions people ask

Where is Rosscahill?
Rosscahill is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 18 km north-west of Galway city and 198 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Rosscahill?
306 people at the 2016 census.
How far is Rosscahill from Galway?
18 km in a straight line from the crossroads to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Rosscahill known for?
Its place on the N59 between Galway and Oughterard, with Ross Lake beside it and Aughnanure Castle and Brigit's Garden close by.
What is the weather like in Rosscahill 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.