Carraroe
Carraroe is a tiny village which is nevertheless the largest settlement on the Carraroe / Cheathrú Rua Peninsula of Connemara in County Galway. Just across the channel east is the harbour of Rossaveel, while across the channel west are a chain of islands that have become connected by causeway, linking Lettermore, Lettermullan and Furnish.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Garry Smales, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Carraroe1, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 814 residents
- Description: human settlement in Ireland, Connemara, county Galway
- Also known as: “An Cheathrú Rua” and “Carrowroe”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Inchamakinna and Cashla Bay Lighthouse.
Templeinishmackauv Church
Ruins
Photo: Jonathan Wilkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Templeinishmackauv Church is a ruins.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Costelloe and Rossaveel.
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. Costelloe is situated 4 km northeast of Carraroe.
Rossaveel
Village
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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. Rossaveel is situated 4 km east of Carraroe.
Lettermore
Hamlet
Photo: Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lettermore is a Gaeltacht village in County Galway, Ireland. It is also the name of the island, linked by road to the mainland, on which the village sits. Lettermore is situated 4½ km northwest of Carraroe.
Carraroe
- Categories: human settlement, Gaeltacht, and locality
- Location: County Galway, Connacht, West Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.2636° or 53° 15′ 49″ northLongitude
-9.5997° or 9° 35′ 59″ westPopulation
814Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)Open location code
9C5G7C72+C4OpenStreetMap ID
node 52254033OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2965746Wikidata ID
Q482400
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Carraroe” goes by many names.
- Basque: “An Cheathrú Rua”
- Basque: “Carraroe”
- Basque: “Cheathrú Rua”
- Breton: “An Cheathrú Rua”
- Catalan: “An Cheathrú Rua”
- Cebuano: “Carraroe”
- Dutch: “An Cheathrú Rua”
- Georgian: “კარარო”
- German: “An Cheathrú Rua”
- German: “Carraroe”
- German: “Carrowroe”
- Hungarian: “An Cheathrú Rua”
- Hungarian: “Carraroe”
- Hungarian: “Carrowroe”
- Irish: “An Cheathrú Rua”
- Japanese: “キャラロー”
- Russian: “Карраро”
- Spanish: “An Cheathrú Rua”
- Swedish: “Carraroe”
- Turkish: “Carraroe”
- “An Cheathrú Rua”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Carraroe”. Photo: Carraroe1, CC BY-SA 3.0.