West Ireland
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County Galway

Galway Bay

Galway Bay is a bay on the west coast of , between in the province of to the north and in in the province of to the south; city is on the northeast side.
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  • Type: Bay
  • Description: bay on the west coast of Ireland
  • Also known as: “Loch Lurgan”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Spiddal and Murroogh.

Photo: O’Dea, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village on the north coast of Galway Bay in Connemara, . With a population of 254 in 2022, it's not so much the largest, more like the least tiny, of the little settlements that straggle along R336, all described on this page.

Locality
, sometimes named Murrooghtoohy or Murroghtwohy, is a hamlet in , . It covers the townlands of Murrooghtoohy North and Murrooghtoohy South.

Village
Photo: Dr Charles Nelson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small village in the Killonaghan civil parish of , on the west coast of . The area was officially classified as part of the West Clare Gaeltacht, an Irish-speaking community, until 1956.

Galway Bay

Latitude
53.19081° or 53° 11′ 27″ north
Longitude
-9.32705° or 9° 19′ 37″ west
Open location code
9C5G5MRF+85
Open­Street­Map ID
node 10582637009
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
2964178
Wiki­data ID
Q1127599
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Galway Bay” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “خليج غالواي”
  • Basque: “Galway badia”
  • Basque: “Galwayko badia”
  • Belarusian: “Голуэй”
  • Belarusian: “Заліў Голуэй”
  • Bulgarian: “Голуей (залив)”
  • Bulgarian: “Голуей”
  • Catalan: “badia de Galway”
  • Catalan: “Badia de Galway”
  • Cebuano: “Galway Bay (luuk sa Ireland)”
  • Cebuano: “Galway Bay”
  • Chinese: “加列維灣”
  • Chinese: “戈尔韦湾”
  • Czech: “Galwayský záliv”
  • Dutch: “Baai van Galway”
  • Dutch: “Galway Bay”
  • Dutch: “Galwaybaai”
  • Esperanto: “Golfo de Galivo”
  • Estonian: “Cuan na Gaillimhe”
  • Estonian: “Galway laht”
  • Finnish: “Galwaynlahti”
  • French: “baie de Galway”
  • French: “Baie de Galway”
  • German: “Bucht von Galway”
  • German: “Galway Bay”
  • German: “Galway-Bucht”
  • German: “Galwaybucht”
  • Hebrew: “מפרץ גולוויי”
  • Hungarian: “Galway-öböl”
  • Hungarian: “Loch Lurgan”
  • Irish: “Chuan na Gaillimhe”
  • Irish: “Cuan na Gaillimhe”
  • Irish: “Loch Lurgan”
  • Italian: “baia di Galway”
  • Italian: “Baia di Galway”
  • Italian: “Galway Bay”
  • Italian: “Loch Lurgain”
  • Japanese: “ゴールウェーベイ”
  • Japanese: “ゴールウェー湾”
  • Japanese: “ゴールウェイベイ”
  • Japanese: “ゴールウェイ湾”
  • Kazakh: “Голуэй (шығанақ)”
  • Kazakh: “Голуэй”
  • Korean: “골웨이 만”
  • Korean: “골웨이만”
  • Lithuanian: “Golvėjaus įlanka”
  • Low German: “Galwaybucht”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Galway Bay”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cuan na Gaillimhe”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Galway Bay”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Loch Lurgain”
  • Norwegian: “Galway Bay”
  • Polish: “Galway Bay”
  • Polish: “Galway”
  • Polish: “Zatoka Galway”
  • Portuguese: “Baía de Galway”
  • Russian: “Голуэй”
  • Russian: “Залив Голуэй”
  • Slovak: “Cuan na Gaillimhe”
  • Slovak: “Galway Bay”
  • Slovak: “Galwayský záliv”
  • Slovak: “Loch Lurgain”
  • Spanish: “Bahia de galway”
  • Spanish: “Bahía de Galway”
  • Swedish: “Galway Bay (vik i Irland)”
  • Swedish: “Galway Bay”
  • Turkish: “Galway Körfezi”
  • Ukrainian: “Голвей (затока)”
  • Ukrainian: “Голвей”
  • Venetian: “Baja de Galway”
  • Welsh: “Bae Galway”
  • Western Frisian: “Baai fan Galway”
  • Western Frisian: “Galway Baai”
  • Yue Chinese: “加列維灣”
  • “Galway Bay”

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