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Average rent in Barna

From the rents on tenancies registered with the Residential Tenancies Board in Barna, Co. Galway.

The average rent registered in Barna was €1,864 a month in October to December 2025.

On the same quarter a year earlier it rose 1.4%, from €1,838. Over the five years on this page it rose 41.0%.

The shape of it

Quarter by quarter

  1. Q1 2021€1,322
  2. Q2 2021€1,390
  3. Q3 2021€1,391
  4. Q4 2021€1,384
  5. Q1 2022€1,376
  6. Q2 2022€1,398
  7. Q3 2022€1,470
  8. Q4 2022€1,495
  9. Q1 2023€1,529
  10. Q2 2023€1,545
  11. Q3 2023€1,583
  12. Q4 2023€1,648
  13. Q1 2024€1,778
  14. Q2 2024€1,795
  15. Q3 2024€1,849
  16. Q4 2024€1,838
  17. Q1 2025€1,865
  18. Q2 2025€1,889
  19. Q3 2025€1,850
  20. Q4 2025€1,864

The bars do not start at zero. A rent series never goes near it, and a bar drawn from zero would make every quarter look identical.

By number of bedrooms

  1. 1 to 2 bed€1,625
  2. 1 to 3 bed€1,746

Measured at Q4 2025. Where a size is missing, the Board withheld it because too few tenancies of that size were registered to publish a figure.

By property type

  1. Apartment€1,746

Measured at Q4 2025.

Year by year

  1. 2008€973
  2. 2009€913
  3. 2010€832
  4. 2011€800
  5. 2012€820
  6. 2013€849
  7. 2014€880
  8. 2015€941
  9. 2016€1,034
  10. 2017€1,147
  11. 2018€1,243
  12. 2019€1,314
  13. 2020€1,356
  14. 2021€1,374
  15. 2022€1,465
  16. 2023€1,634
  17. 2024€1,827
  18. 2025€1,860

What this figure is, and what it is not

It is the average rent on tenancies in Barna that were registered with the Residential Tenancies Board, which every landlord is required to do. It is an average rather than a median, so a small number of expensive lettings pull it upwards.

It is not the rent being asked in advertisements. An asking rent is what a landlord hopes for and this is what was signed.

It is not what a sitting tenant is likely to be paying either. A tenancy enters this average at the rent agreed when it started and does not enter again, so the figure leans towards recently agreed rents and sits above what somebody who has been in the same home for years pays.

If your own rent is going up, the figure that governs it is not this one. What a landlord may lawfully charge is worked out from the rules and your own history, and the rent increase calculator does that with the figures shown.

Buying instead of renting in Barna

The median house in Barna sold for €550,000 in 2025, across 27 sales on the Property Price Register. Every year since 2010 for Barna.

A sale median and a rent average are two different statistics about two different sets of homes. Neither one converts into the other and nothing on this site treats them as though it did.

Average rent across Co. Galway, and every other town in it.

Where this comes from

The quarterly and annual average monthly rent tables published by the Residential Tenancies Board, via the Central Statistics Office, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Imported 9 September 2026. The yearly figures come from the annual table rather than from averaging the quarters, because averaging four averages would produce a figure the Board never published.

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