Cloonboo
Cluain Bú | |
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Village | |
_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1953815.jpg) Cloonboo Castle | |
  Cloonboo Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 53°22′34″N 9°0′46″W / 53.37611°N 9.01278°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Connacht |
| County | County Galway |
| Population | 484 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
Cloonboo (Irish: Cluain Bú),[2] also Clonboo, is a village in County Galway, Ireland. It is located on the N84 national secondary road from Galway to Castlebar.
Cloonboo is in the civil parish of Annaghdown, in the barony of Clare.[3]
In popular culture
In the Netflix series House of Guinness, Cloonboo is depicted as a rural community located in County Galway that is part of the Guinness estates around Ashford Castle, County Mayo. It is the site of scenes in which Anne suffers a miscarriage and where social and economic inequalities in rural Ireland are dramatised. Though set in Galway, the scenes for Cloonboo were filmed in Snowdonia, Wales.[4]
References
- ↑ "Census Interactive Map – Towns: Cluain Bú". Census 2022. Central Statistics Office. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
- ↑ "Cluain Bú - Cloonboo". Irish Placenames Database. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ↑ "Cloonboo Townland, Co. Galway". townlands.ie. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
- ↑ "'House of Guinness' locations: the unexpected filming spots behind Netflix's wild new period epic". Time Out.
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