Clifden
Clifden is a small town on the northwest coast of County Galway in the west of Ireland. It grew up as a harbour and market town, then after the Famine became a coast resort with its present Victorian architecture.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bert Kaufmann, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 1,600 residents
- Description: town in County Galway, Ireland
- Also known as: “An Clochán”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Clifden Castle and Letterdeen Standing Stone.
Clifden Castle
Castle
Photo: Drow69, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Clifden Castle is a ruined manor house west of the town of Clifden in the Connemara region of County Galway, Ireland. It was built c. 1818 for John D'Arcy, the local landowner, in the Gothic Revival style.
Letterdeen Standing Stone
Archaeological site
Photo: Newbert12, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Letterdeen Standing Stone is an archaeological site.
Clifden
- Category: locality
- Location: County Galway, Connacht, West Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.4885° or 53° 29′ 19″ northLongitude
-10.0211° or 10° 1′ 16″ westPopulation
1,600Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)United Nations Location Code
IE CLIOpen location code
9C5FFXQH+9HOpenStreetMap ID
node 52259119OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Swedish—“Clifden” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Clifden”
- Basque: “Clifden”
- Breton: “An Clochán”
- Breton: “Clifden”
- Catalan: “Clifden”
- Cebuano: “Clifden”
- Chinese: “克利夫登”
- Chinese: “可夫敦”
- Dutch: “Clifden”
- French: “An Clochán”
- French: “Clifden”
- Galician: “Clifden - An Clochán”
- Galician: “Clifden”
- Georgian: “კლიფდენი”
- German: “An Clochán”
- German: “Clifden”
- Hungarian: “An Clochán”
- Hungarian: “Clifden”
- Interlingue: “Clifden”
- Irish: “An Clochán”
- Italian: “Clifden”
- Italian: “Derrygimlagh Bog”
- Japanese: “クリフデン”
- Polish: “Clifden”
- Portuguese: “Clifden”
- Russian: “Ан-Клохан”
- Russian: “Клифден”
- Spanish: “Clifden”
- Swedish: “Clifden”
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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 “Clifden”. Photo: Bert Kaufmann, Public domain.