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

Woodford, street by street

The village of the iron mills between the Shannon and the Slieve Aughty, where seventeenth-century furnaces ate a hectare of oak a day, with a dammed river, three nature reserves and a Furnace Festival every August.

Woodford is a village of 242 people, 50 km south-east of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 165 buildings stands on the map above, and 52 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 Woodford

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

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Woodford

50 km from Galway, 52 km from Shannon Airport, 0 bus stops, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

The bay, St Mary's well, the reserves, Derrygill, Kilnalekin, Pallas.

Since 17th century
The history of Woodford

The iron furnaces, the corn mill and the light, the oaks of 2000.

Facts
About the town

Population 242 at the 2022 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Woodford

3 pubs, 1 supermarkets, 2 schools, 2 banks and 1 gyms and sport and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to Main Street first.

Food and drink
Shops
Services
Community
Sport and leisure
Places to stay
Things to see

All 20 kinds of place

Guides to Woodford

All 1 guides
Sport
Cyril Farrell

Cyril Farrell, born 1 August 1950, a Fitzgibbon Cup winner with UCG in 1977 and a county and Connacht champion with Tommy Larkin's of…

Food and drink

Where to eat in Woodford

3 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 3 of them within 300 m of Main Street. 0 have hours on record.

  1. The WrenPubs · Main Street
  2. Walsh'sPubs · Main Street
  3. ElsiesPubs

Pubs

Plan of Woodford 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 5 streets
  1. Main Street
    regional road R351 · 347 m
    5 places
  2. Barkhill
    minor road · 476 m
    4 places
  3. Barrack Lane
    minor road · 369 m
    2 places
  4. Green Valley Court
    residential street · 220 m
    1 place

Things to see around Woodford

The L4205 road to Moyglass, near Woodford, Co. Galway
The L4205 road to Moyglass, near Woodford, Co. Galway
P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A. Moran, Woodford, Co. Galway
A. Moran, Woodford, Co. Galway
P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The R351 road approaching the junction with the L4205 road, near Woodford, Co. Galway
The R351 road approaching the junction with the L4205 road, near Woodford, Co. Galway
P L Chadwick, 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. Woodford PlaygroundPlaygrounds · 106 m
  2. Woodford BayLakes · 307 m
  3. St Marys WellMonuments · 848 m
  4. Black LoughLakes · 4.5 km
  5. LoughaunewaLakes · 5.4 km
  6. Coolfin CastleCastles · 5.5 km
  7. Church (ruins)Ruins · 5.9 km
  8. Abbey IslandWoods · 6.9 km
  9. Cloondadauv CastleCastles · 7.3 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells

Woodford in pictures

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

The L4205 road to Moyglass, near Woodford, Co. Galway
The L4205 road to Moyglass, near Woodford, Co. Galway
P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A. Moran, Woodford, Co. Galway
A. Moran, Woodford, Co. Galway
P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The R351 road approaching the junction with the L4205 road, near Woodford, Co. Galway
The R351 road approaching the junction with the L4205 road, near Woodford, Co. Galway
P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Standing Stone in Knockauncarragh, Woodford
Standing Stone in Knockauncarragh, Woodford
Jason Keane, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Bridge over Woodford River, Rosmore Bridge, Co. Galway
Bridge over Woodford River, Rosmore Bridge, Co. Galway
P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Woodford River, Rosmore, Co. Galway
Woodford River, Rosmore, Co. Galway
P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Woodford River
Woodford River
David Leech, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
An eviction on the land of the Marquis of Clanricarde at Woodford, Co.Galway. Farmer and boatbuilder,…
An eviction on the land of the Marquis of Clanricarde at Woodford, Co.Galway. Farmer and boatbuilder,…
National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Woodford?
Woodford is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 50 km south-east of Galway city and 146 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Woodford?
242 people at the 2022 census.
How far is Woodford from Galway?
50 km in a straight line from Main Street to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Woodford known for?
Its iron mills of the 1600s, Woodford Bay, the nature reserves and millennium oaks, the Furnace Festival and the East Galway Family History Society.
What is the weather like in Woodford 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.