OPW Station Craughwell

OPW Station Craughwell is a monitoring station in County Galway, Connacht. OPW Station Craughwell is situated nearby to the police station Craughwell Garda Station, as well as near Craughwell Hurling Club.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Craughwell and Caherkinmonwee Castle.

Craughwell

Railway station

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Craughwell railway station is a railway station serving the village of Craughwell in County Galway, Ireland. It is an unstaffed single-platform station. Craughwell is situated 360 metres southwest of OPW Station Craughwell.

Caherkinmonwee Castle

Castle

Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Caherkinmonwee Castle, also known as Caher Castle, is a tower house located in County Galway, Ireland. Caherkinmonwee Castle is situated 2½ km east of OPW Station Craughwell.

Rahasane Turlough

Lake

Rahasane Turlough is a turlough, west of Craughwell in southwest County Galway. It is the largest surviving turlough in Ireland. A turlough is a karst lake, which has no surface outlet and is surrounded on all sides by rising land. Rahasane Turlough is situated 3 km west of OPW Station Craughwell.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Craughwell and Athenry.

Craughwell

Village

Photo: Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Craughwell is a village and townland in County Galway, Ireland. As of the 2022 census, the village had a population of approximately 1,000 people. Craughwell is 8 km south of Athenry, 12 km west of Loughrea, and 22 km east of Galway city.

Athenry

Photo: AFBorchert, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Athenry is a market town in County Galway with medieval town walls, castle and abbey. In Irish it's Baile Átha an Rí, town of the ford of the king. Those kings were the Ó Mainnín dynasty, ousted in the 12th century by supporters of the O'Connor kings, who in turn were ousted in the 13th century by the Anglo-Norman de Bermingham overlords.

Kilcolgan

Village

Photo: Drow69, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Kilcolgan, is a village on the mouth of the Kilcolgan River at Dunkellin Bay in County Galway, Ireland. The settlement is at the junction of the N67 and R458 roads, which lies between Gort and Clarinbridge. Kilcolgan is situated 9 km west of OPW Station Craughwell.

OPW Station Craughwell

Type: Monitoring station
Location: County Galway, Connacht, West Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.2278° or 53° 13′ 40″ north

Longitude

-8.73286° or 8° 43′ 58″ west

Operator

Office of Public Works

Open location code

9C5H67H8+4V

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4037296069

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=monitoring_station

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Craughwell Garda Station and Craughwell Hurling Club.

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