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

Roundstone, street by street

A harbour village Alexander Nimmo laid out in the 1820s, facing Inishnee across the bay, where Paul Henry and Jack Yeats painted and Sting wrote an album.

Roundstone is a town of 214 people, 59 km west of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 862 buildings stands on the map above, and 261 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 Roundstone

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Roundstone

59 km from Galway, 35 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 2 bus stops, 1 car park.

See and do
Things to do

The harbour, the Nimmo monument, the monastery park, the chapel ruin, Toombeola.

Since 15th century
The history of Roundstone

The O'Flahertys' priory, Round-stone Haven, Nimmo's village, the monastery, the painters and the films.

Facts
About the town

Population 214 at the 2016 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Roundstone

5 restaurants, 1 pubs, 1 hairdressers and beauty, 2 supermarkets and 1 doctors and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the harbour first.

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

All 32 kinds of place

Guides to Roundstone

All 3 guides
Village
Roundstone

Roundstone, Cloch na Rón, the seal's rock, is the harbour village opposite Inishnee on Roundstone Bay, 76 km from Galway and 18 km from…

Ballynahinch Castle
Castle
Ballynahinch Castle and Lake

Ballynahinch Castle, the three-storey country house of 1754 on the south shore of Ballynahinch Lake under Benlettery, is a luxury hotel…

People
Richard Martin and Alexander Nimmo

Two men behind Roundstone: Colonel Richard Martin of Ballynahinch, born at Dangan on 15 January 1754, MP from 1776, duellist of a…

Food and drink

Where to eat in Roundstone

6 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 6 of them within 300 m of the harbour. 4 have hours on record.

  1. Coffee Cottage CafeCafés · Roundstone Road
  2. O’Dowd’sRestaurants · Roundstone Road
  3. O’Dowd’s CaféCafés · Roundstone Road
  4. The ShamrockPubs · Main Street
  5. Bake-Away CafeCafés · Monastry road
  6. Vaughan’s Bar & RestaurantRestaurants · High Street

Restaurants · Cafés · Pubs

Plan of Roundstone 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 2 streets
  1. Roundstone Road
    regional road R341 · 3.3 km
    19 places

Things to see around Roundstone

Roundstone North Pier
Roundstone North Pier
Stuart Logan, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Roundstone Harbour
Roundstone Harbour
Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Roundstone Harbour
Roundstone Harbour
Bert Kaufmann from Roermond, Netherlands, CC BY 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. Alexander NimmoMonuments · 5 m
  2. Heritage Walks on SaturdaysAttractions · 6 m
  3. Roundstone Bay & Island ToursAttractions · 27 m
  4. Roundstone play parkParks · 138 m
  5. Roundstone PlaygroundPlaygrounds · 144 m
  6. Michael Killeen ParkRuins · 457 m
  7. Rick's LoughLakes · 1.2 km
  8. Cregduff LoughLakes · 1.5 km
  9. Saint Mathias's Chapel (ruins)Ruins · 1.7 km

Ringforts · Holy wells · Beaches · Hotels

Roundstone in pictures

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

Roundstone North Pier
Roundstone North Pier
Stuart Logan, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Roundstone Harbour
Roundstone Harbour
Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Roundstone Harbour
Roundstone Harbour
Bert Kaufmann from Roermond, Netherlands, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Roundstone Harbour, Co. Galway, Ireland.
Roundstone Harbour, Co. Galway, Ireland.
JoachimKohler-HB, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Roundstone harbour and village
Roundstone harbour and village
Marvinthefish, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Roundstone Harbour and town
Roundstone Harbour and town
Stuart Logan, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Main street of Roundstone (the R341 road) in Co Galway, Ireland on 15th Aug 2009
Main street of Roundstone (the R341 road) in Co Galway, Ireland on 15th Aug 2009
Terence wiki, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Li portu in Roundstone (Irland)
Li portu in Roundstone (Irland)
Valodnieks, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Roundstone?
Roundstone is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 59 km west of Galway city and 243 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Roundstone?
214 people at the 2016 census.
How far is Roundstone from Galway?
59 km in a straight line from the harbour to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Roundstone known for?
Its harbour, the painters who worked here, the July regatta, the films shot in the village, and Sting's stay while writing Zenyatta Mondatta.
What is the weather like in Roundstone 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.