Galmoy
Galmoy is a village in the barony of Galmoy, County Kilkenny in the southeastern part of the midlands of Ireland. It is located on the Kilkenny–Laois border, between the villages of Cullohill and Johnstown.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: town in Leinster, Ireland
- Also known as: “Galmoy, County Kilkenny”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grangefertagh Round Tower and St Michael’s Well.
St Michael’s Well
Spring
Photo: A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Michael’s Well is a spring, which is situated 4 km southwest of Galmoy.
Glashare Castle
Ruins
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Glashare Castle is a ruins, which is situated 3½ km east of Galmoy.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Johnstown and Cullohill.
Johnstown
Village
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Johnstown, historically known as Coorthafooka, is a small town in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Bypassed in December 2008 by the M8, the town lies at the junction of the R639, the R502 and the R435 regional roads. Johnstown is situated 5 km south of Galmoy.
Cullohill
Village
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Abbeyleix is a town in County Laois in the midlands of Ireland, with a population of 1770 in 2016. The abbey was Cistercian, founded in 1183 in the valley of the River Nore, and the original settlement grew up around it. Cullohill is situated 7 km northeast of Galmoy.
Rathdowney
Town
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Rathdowney or Rathdowny is a small town in southwest County Laois, Ireland. It lies some 32 km southwest of Portlaoise in the Irish Midlands, at the point where the R433 regional road from Abbeyleix to Templemore is crossed by the R435 from Borris-in-Ossory to Johnstown. Rathdowney is situated 7 km north of Galmoy.
Galmoy
- Category: human settlement
- Location: Kilkenny, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.79294° or 52° 47′ 35″ northLongitude
-7.56596° or 7° 33′ 57″ westElevation
124 metres (407 feet)United Nations Location Code
IE GMYOpen location code
9C4JQCVM+5JOpenStreetMap ID
node 52253118OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityGeoNames ID
2964184Wikidata ID
Q2084289
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Russian—“Galmoy” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Galmoy”
- Dutch: “Galmoy”
- French: “Galmoy”
- Irish: “Gabhalmhaigh”
- Russian: “Галмой”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Galmoy”. Photo: Sarah777, Public domain.