Galway, Ireland

Galway, Ireland is a submarine cable landing point in Ireland (coordinates 53.2739°, -9.0483°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Ireland's international connectivity infrastructure.

Galway is a city in County Galway. It lies on the River Corrib between Lough Corrib and Galway Bay. It is the most populous settlement in the province of Connacht, the fifth most populous city on the island of Ireland and the fourth most populous in the Republic of Ireland, with a population at the 2022 census of 85,910. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Galway, Ireland, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Iceland. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Galway, Ireland in the past 90 days — all connected systems remained within normal latency thresholds. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• IRIS (2023) — IRIS is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Ireland and Iceland. Landing at Galway, Thorlakshofn, it provides a direct fiber-optic path between the two countries, serving as both a primary data route and a redundancy option for neighboring cable systems. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.