Rossaveel
Rossaveal or Rossaveel is a Gaeltacht village and townland in the Connemara district of County Galway in the west of Ireland. It is the main ferry port for the Aran Islands in Galway Bay.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Connacht, Ireland
- Also known as: “Ros an Mhíl” and “Rossaveal”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Costelloe Lodge and Cashla Bay Lighthouse.
Costelloe Lodge
House
Costelloe Lodge is an early 20th century building in Casla, County Galway, Ireland. It was designed by Edwin Lutyens for J. Bruce Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line, after Ismay's original fishing lodge was burnt out in an IRA attack in 1922.
Templeinishmackauv Church
Ruins
Photo: Jonathan Wilkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Templeinishmackauv Church is a ruins, which is situated 4 km southwest of Rossaveel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Costelloe and Carraroe.
Costelloe
Village
Photo: Sean an Scuab, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Casla is a Gaeltacht village between Indreabhán and An Cheathrú Rua in western County Galway, Ireland. The headquarters of RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta is located there.
Carraroe
Photo: Carraroe1, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Carraroe is a tiny village which is nevertheless the largest settlement on the Carraroe / Cheathrú Rua Peninsula of Connemara in County Galway. It has a population of 725 people, and has one of the highest percentages of Irish speakers in the country, at 78%.
Ballynahown
Village
Photo: Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Baile na hAbhann, anglicised as Ballynahown, is a Gaeltacht village about 31 km west of Galway, Ireland, on the R336 regional road between Indreabhán and Casla. Ballynahown is situated 4½ km southeast of Rossaveel.
Rossaveel
- Categories: human settlement, Gaeltacht, and locality
- Location: County Galway, Connacht, West Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.27346° or 53° 16′ 24″ northLongitude
-9.54099° or 9° 32′ 28″ westOpen location code
9C5G7FF5+9JOpenStreetMap ID
node 52268863OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3230296Wikidata ID
Q2661340
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Western Frisian—“Rossaveel” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Ros an Mhíl”
- Basque: “Rossaveal”
- Catalan: “Ros an Mhíl”
- Dutch: “Ros an Mhil”
- Dutch: “Ros an Mhíl”
- Dutch: “Rossaveal”
- Georgian: “როსავილი”
- Irish: “Ros a‘ Mhíl”
- Irish: “Ros an Mhíl”
- Italian: “Ros a‘ Mhíl”
- Italian: “Ros a’ Mhíl”
- Italian: “Rossaveal”
- Italian: “Rossaveel”
- Japanese: “ロッサヴィール”
- Russian: “Россавил”
- Turkish: “Rossaveal”
- Western Frisian: “Ros an Mhíl”
- “Ros a‘ Mhíl”
- “Ros an Mhíl”
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Rossaveel”. Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.