Galway and County on a homecare, inpatient and daycare basis. Galway Galway (; , ) is a city in the West of Ireland, in the province of Connacht. Galway lies on the River Corrib between Lough Corrib and Galway Bay, surrounded by County Galway, and is the sixth most populous city in Ireland, with a population at the 2016 Census of 79,934. Galway will be the European Capital of Culture in 2020, alongside Rijeka, Croatia. The city's name comes from the Irish name "Gaillimhe", which formed the western boundary of the earliest settlement, "Dún Gaillimhe" "Fort Gaillimh". (Mythical and alternative derivations
Recess, County Galway Recess, County Galway Recess (Irish: Sraith Saileach or "Sraith Salach" ) is a village in County Galway, Ireland. Its official name is in Irish, "Sraith Saileach", and translates as "stream of the willow tree". A notable former resident was Seán Lester, the last Secretary General of the League of Nations, who lived there following his retirement until his death in 1959. Recess railway station was on the Galway-Clifden line of the Midland Great Western Railway. The line opened on 1 July 1895 and was closed on 29 April 1935. The word in the Irish language is Sruth meaning stream and