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Tuam Town Hall

Tuam Town Hall is a council office on The Square in Tuam, County Galway, on the Square. J. L, Eason and High Cross Pharmacy are within 25 m.

Neoclassical limestone hall of 1857 on the Market Square with a four-stage clock tower, built to replace the 1700 market house; now a community venue.

Kind
Council offices
Street
The Square
From the Square
On the Square
Run by
Galway County Council
Wheelchair
Not accessible
Parking
The Shambles Car Park on Vicar Street, 79 m away
Bus stop
Tuam (Vicar Street Cathedral), 162 m away

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Plan of the streets around Tuam Town Hall, 340 metres across
The building in black is this one; drag to turn the model.Open the whole town
Plan of the surrounding 300 mPlan of the streets around Tuam Town Hall, 340 metres across

The story of Tuam Town Hall

The first civic building on the Square was a market house of 1700 on its south-west side, arcaded below so markets could shelter under it and with an assembly room for the corporation above. When the Municipal Corporations Act abolished the corporation in 1840 the building stood empty until town commissioners were appointed three years later, and they chose to pull it down and build properly.

John Stratford Handcock of Carrowntryla House let them the site for a nominal rent, and his wife Elizabeth Penelope Handcock laid the foundation stone on 24 September 1857. James Joseph Boylan designed the hall in the neoclassical manner and Andrew Egan, the man later called the builder of Tuam, raised it in coursed limestone the same year. The front to the Square is six bays wide and deliberately lopsided: five bays of mullioned windows, then an ashlar-faced bay carrying a four-stage tower with the entrance below, lancet windows above and clock faces at the top under an octagonal lantern. The assembly hall is on the first floor.

The hall was badly damaged in July 1920 when armed police attacked it and other property after an IRA ambush outside the town. Today it is used for community events. Tuam's council itself has changed shape several times: town commissioners from 1854, a town council from 2002, and since then the Tuam Municipal District of Galway County Council.

Written from Wikipedia, "Tuam Town Hall" and Wikipedia, "Tuam" (CC BY-SA 4.0, read 2026-09-18). Facts only from those sources; the words are ours.

Tuam Town Hall in pictures

The Town Hall on the Square, 1857
The Town Hall on the Square, 1857
Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Getting to Tuam Town Hall

By car
Park at The Shambles Car Park on Vicar Street, 79 m away. Tuam is 30 km from Galway city.
By bus
The nearest stop is Tuam (Vicar Street Cathedral), 162 m away.
Directions from where you are
Open the model above, tap the pin and choose “Directions here”; the route is drawn from your own position.

While you are there

12 places to eat and drink within 300 m: Krugers Bar (28 m), Supermac's (39 m), The Galway Roast (39 m) and The Sportsman's Inn (59 m) and more.

13 shops within 300 m, including J. L, Eason and SAB Fashion.

The Square itself has 12 named places on the map, and 3 car parks along it.

Within a short walk

  1. J. L
    Jewellers
    23 m
  2. Eason
    Bookshops
    24 m
  3. 25 m
  4. 28 m
  5. 31 m
  6. Leo's Pharmacy
    Pharmacies
    31 m
  7. Supermac's
    Takeaways
    39 m
  8. 39 m

Also on The Square

  1. Abbey
    Cafés
  4. J. L
    Jewellers
  6. Leo's Pharmacy
    Pharmacies
  8. NCBI
    Charity shops

Everything on The Square (12 places)

Other council offices in Tuam

  1. 183 m

All 2 council offices in Tuam

Questions people ask

Where is Tuam Town Hall?
On The Square in Tuam, on the Square; the nearest car park is 79 m away.
What is the history of Tuam Town Hall?
Neoclassical limestone hall of 1857 on the Market Square with a four-stage clock tower, built to replace the 1700 market house; now a community venue. The full story is above.
Are there other council offices nearby?
1 other council office in $Tuam; the closest is Galway County Council, 183 m away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap way/413492772, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.