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Galway

Galway is the county town of on the west coast of Ireland. It's Ireland's fourth largest city, with a population in 2024 of 85,000, but its historic centre on the east bank of the River Corrib is compact.
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  • Type: City with 85,900 residents
  • Description: city in Ireland
  • Also known as: “Cathair na Gaillimhe”, “Gaillimh”, “Gallway”, “Gallway T.”, “Gallway Town”, “Galway city”, and “Galway City”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Galway Ceannt and Eamonn Deacy Park.

Railway station
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Galway railway station is a railway station which serves the city of Galway in . The station itself is located in the centre of the city in .

Stadium
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, formerly known as Terryland Park, is an association football stadium in the Republic of Ireland based in the Terryland district of Galway.

Stadium
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Dexcom Stadium is the home of Connacht Rugby. It opened in 1927 and has been used to host Connacht Rugby matches since. Dexcom Stadium is able to hold up to 8,129 people without temporary seating.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Claddagh and Salthill.

Suburb
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The is an area close to the centre of Galway, Ireland, where the meets . It was formerly a fishing village, just outside the old city walls.

Suburb
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is a seaside area to the southwest of Galway city centre in the west of Ireland. The area is home to a number of tourist amenities and there is a 2 km long promenade, locally known as "the Prom", which overlooks .

Village
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Mionlach, commonly known by the anglicised name or Menlough, is a village and townland in one of the Gaeltacht areas of , . It is located about 3 km north of the Galway city centre, near where outflows into the .

Galway

Latitude
53.2744° or 53° 16′ 28″ north
Longitude
-9.0491° or 9° 2′ 57″ west
Population
85,900
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
IATA airport code
GWY
United Nations Location Code
IE GWY
Open location code
9C5G7XF2+Q9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 582043319
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2964180
Wiki­data ID
Q129610
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Galway” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Galway”
  • Albanian: “Galway”
  • Arabic: “غالواي”
  • Aragonese: “Gaillimh”
  • Armenian: “Գոլուեյ”
  • Asturian: “Galway”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qoluey”
  • Basque: “Cathair na Gaillimhe”
  • Basque: “Gaillimh”
  • Basque: “Galway”
  • Belarusian: “Голуэй”
  • Belarusian: “Голўэй”
  • Bengali: “গালওয়ে”
  • Breton: “Cathair na Gaillimhe”
  • Breton: “Gaillimh”
  • Breton: “Galliv”
  • Breton: “Galway”
  • Bulgarian: “Голуей”
  • Catalan: “Cathair na Gaillimhe”
  • Catalan: “Gaillimh”
  • Catalan: “Galway”
  • Cebuano: “Gaillimh (kapital sa lalawigan sa Ireland)”
  • Cebuano: “Gaillimh”
  • Cebuano: “Galway City”
  • Chinese: “哥尔威”
  • Chinese: “哥尔威市”
  • Chinese: “哥爾威”
  • Chinese: “哥爾威市”
  • Chinese: “戈尔韦”
  • Chinese: “戈尔韦市”
  • Chinese: “戈爾韋”
  • Chinese: “戈爾韋市”
  • Chinese: “高威”
  • Chinese: “高威市”
  • Chinese: “高維”
  • Chinese: “高維市”
  • Chinese: “高维”
  • Chinese: “高维市”
  • Croatian: “Galway”
  • Czech: “An Gaillimh”
  • Czech: “Galway”
  • Danish: “Cathair na Gaillimhe”
  • Danish: “Gaillimh”
  • Danish: “Galway”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Galway”
  • Dutch: “Gaillimh”
  • Dutch: “Galway”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جالواى”
  • Esperanto: “Cathair na Gaillimhe”
  • Esperanto: “Gaillimh”
  • Esperanto: “Galivo”
  • Esperanto: “Galway”
  • Estonian: “Gaillimh”
  • Estonian: “Galway”
  • Faroese: “Galway”
  • Finnish: “Cathair na Gaillimhe”
  • Finnish: “Gaillimh”
  • Finnish: “Galway”
  • French: “Cathair na Gaillimhe”
  • French: “Gaillimh”
  • French: “Galway”
  • Galician: “Gaillimh”
  • Galician: “Galway”
  • Georgian: “გოლუეი”
  • German: “City of Galway”
  • German: “Galway City”
  • German: “Galway”
  • Greek: “Γκόλγουεϊ”
  • Gujarati: “ગેલવે”
  • Hebrew: “גולווי”
  • Hebrew: “גולוויי”
  • Hindi: “गैलवे”
  • Hindi: “गॉलवे”
  • Hungarian: “Gaillimh”
  • Hungarian: “Galway”
  • Iban: “Galway”
  • Icelandic: “Cathair na Gaillimhe”
  • Icelandic: “Galway”
  • Ido: “Cathair na Gaillimhe”
  • Ido: “Galway”
  • Indonesian: “Gaillimh”
  • Indonesian: “Galway”
  • Interlingue: “Galway”
  • Irish: “Cathair na Gaillimhe”
  • Irish: “Gaillimh”
  • Irish: “Galway”
  • Italian: “Galway”
  • Japanese: “Cathair na Gaillimhe”
  • Japanese: “ゴールウェー”
  • Japanese: “ゴールウェイ”
  • Kannada: “ಗಾಲ್ವೇ”
  • Korean: “골웨이”
  • Latin: “Gaillimh”
  • Latin: “Galvia”
  • Latin: “Galway”
  • Latvian: “Gaillimh”
  • Latvian: “Galway”
  • Latvian: “Golveja”
  • Limburgan: “Galway”
  • Lithuanian: “Galway”
  • Lithuanian: “Golvėjus”
  • Low German: “Galway”
  • Luxembourgish: “Galway”
  • Malay: “Cathair na Gaillimhe”
  • Malay: “Gaillimh”
  • Malay: “Galway”
  • Maltese: “Galway”
  • Manx: “Gaillimh”
  • Manx: “Galliu”
  • Manx: “Galway”
  • Marathi: “गॅलवे”
  • Mingrelian: “გოლუეი სიტი”
  • Mingrelian: “გოლუეი”
  • Nauru: “Galway”
  • Northern Frisian: “Galway”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Galway”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gaillimh”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Galway”
  • Norwegian: “Galway”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Galwæg”
  • Ossetian: “Голуэй”
  • Persian: “گالوي”
  • Persian: “گالوی”
  • Piemontese: “Galway”
  • Polish: “Gaillimh”
  • Polish: “Galway”
  • Portuguese: “Gaillimh”
  • Portuguese: “Galway”
  • Romanian: “Galway”
  • Russian: “Голвэй”
  • Russian: “Голуэй”
  • Scots: “Gaillimh”
  • Scots: “Galway”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cathair na Gaillimhe”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Gaillimh”
  • Serbian: “Gaillimh”
  • Serbian: “Galway”
  • Serbian: “Golvej”
  • Serbian: “Голвеј”
  • Serbian: “Град Голвеј”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Galway”
  • Sinhala: “ගල්වේ”
  • Slovak: “Galway”
  • Slovenian: “Galway”
  • Spanish: “Cathair na Gaillimhe”
  • Spanish: “Gaillimh”
  • Spanish: “Galway”
  • Swahili: “Galway”
  • Swedish: “Gaillimh”
  • Swedish: “Galway City”
  • Swedish: “Galway”
  • Tajik: “Goluej”
  • Tajik: “Голуэй”
  • Tajik: “Горлуэй”
  • Tamil: “கால்வே”
  • Tatar: “Голвей”
  • Telugu: “గాల్వే”
  • Thai: “กอลเวย์”
  • Thai: “กัลเวย์”
  • Turkish: “Galway”
  • Ukrainian: “Голвей”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґолвей”
  • Ukrainian: “Голуей”
  • Urdu: “جالوای”
  • Urdu: “گالوے”
  • Vietnamese: “Galway”
  • Volapük: “Gaillimh”
  • Welsh: “Cathair na Gaillimhe”
  • Welsh: “Gaillimh”
  • Welsh: “Galway”
  • Western Armenian: “Կալուէյ”
  • Western Frisian: “Galway”
  • Wu Chinese: “戈尔韦”
  • Yue Chinese: “高威”
  • “Gaillimh”
  • “Galway”

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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 “Galway”. Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 3.0.