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Spiddal

Spiddal is a village on the north coast of Galway Bay in Connemara, . With a population of 254 in 2022, it's not so much the largest, more like the least tiny, of the little settlements that straggle along R336, all described on this page.
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  • Type: Village with 237 residents
  • Description: village in County Galway, Ireland
  • Also known as: “An Spidéal” and “Spiddle”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Furbogh.

Village
Photo: MaxPride, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Furbo or is a settlement in , , Ireland. As of the 2022 census, it had a population of 868 people. It lies along the coast, overlooking , in a Gaeltacht area. is situated 6 km east of Spiddal.

Spiddal

Latitude
53.2444° or 53° 14′ 40″ north
Longitude
-9.3051° or 9° 18′ 19″ west
Population
237
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
IATA airport code
NNR
United Nations Location Code
IE NNR
Open location code
9C5G6MVV+PW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8814861149
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2961388
Wiki­data ID
Q482534
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Spiddal” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “An Spidéal”
  • Basque: “Spiddal”
  • Breton: “An Spidéal”
  • Breton: “Spiddal”
  • Bulgarian: “Спидал”
  • Catalan: “An Spidéal”
  • Cebuano: “Spiddal”
  • Chinese: “斯皮德尔”
  • Chinese: “斯皮德爾”
  • Danish: “An Spidéal”
  • Danish: “Spiddal”
  • Dutch: “An Spideal”
  • Dutch: “An Spidéal”
  • Dutch: “Spiddal”
  • Esperanto: “An Spideal”
  • Esperanto: “An Spidéal”
  • French: “An Spideal”
  • French: “An Spidéal”
  • French: “Spiddal”
  • Georgian: “სპიდალი”
  • German: “An Spidéal”
  • German: “Spiddal”
  • Irish: “An Spidéal”
  • Irish: “An Spidéil”
  • Irish: “Spidéal”
  • Irish: “Spidéil”
  • Italian: “An Spidéal”
  • Italian: “Spiddal”
  • Japanese: “スピダル”
  • Japanese: “スピッダル”
  • Manx: “An Spidéal”
  • Manx: “Spiddal”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “An Spidéal”
  • Norwegian: “An Spidéal”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “An Spidéal”
  • Persian: “اسپیدال”
  • Portuguese: “An spidéal”
  • Portuguese: “An Spidéal”
  • Russian: “Ан-Шпидел”
  • Russian: “Спидл”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Spidéal”
  • Spanish: “An Spideal”
  • Spanish: “An Spidéal”
  • Swahili: “An Spidéal”
  • Swahili: “Majadiliano:An Spidéal”
  • Swedish: “An Spidéal”
  • Swedish: “Spiddal”
  • Swedish: “Spiddle”
  • Turkish: “Spiddal”
  • Welsh: “An Spidéal”
  • Welsh: “Spiddal”
  • “An Spidéal”

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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 “Spiddal”. Photo: O’Dea, CC BY-SA 4.0.