House prices in Galway in 2017
Every sale filed for stamp duty in Galway that year, as recorded on the Property Price Register.
The median house in Galway sold for €182,000 in 2017, across 2,448 sales that counted.
On 2016 it rose 11.7%.
The national median that year was €200,000, so Galway sat 9% below it.
The middle half of sales fell between €112,875 and €260,000. New builds were 12% of them. 343 further sales were set aside as not at arm’s length or recorded without the tax the buyer paid.
Dearest first
Towns in Galway in 2017
A town appears here only where enough sales were recorded in it that year for a median to mean something, so this is shorter than the full list of towns in the county.
- Kilcolgan€363,750 over 10 sales
- Barna€356,000 over 37 sales
- Rahoon€273,750 over 22 sales
- Roscam€272,000 over 27 sales
- Knocknacarra€266,000 over 58 sales
- Oranmore€260,000 over 109 sales
- Ardrahan€255,000 over 14 sales
- Renmore€255,000 over 49 sales
- Newcastle€246,000 over 42 sales
- Lower Salthill€236,750 over 12 sales
- Kinvara€232,500 over 20 sales
- Corrandulla€227,500 over 15 sales
- Galway City€225,150 over 23 sales
- Salthill€225,000 over 125 sales
- Moycullen€222,250 over 34 sales
- Craughwell€201,500 over 32 sales
- Athenry€200,000 over 92 sales
- Mervue€200,000 over 19 sales
- Upper Salthill€200,000 over 17 sales
- Claregalway€195,000 over 44 sales
- Woodquay€185,000 over 10 sales
- Oughterard€174,381 over 25 sales
- Doughiska€157,000 over 65 sales
- Headford€147,500 over 24 sales
- Ballybane€146,001 over 31 sales
- Bohermore€144,000 over 24 sales
- Ballybrit€140,000 over 29 sales
- Dunmore€139,000 over 16 sales
- Gort€137,500 over 50 sales
- Loughrea€115,000 over 113 sales
- Tuam€115,000 over 191 sales
- Clifden€98,000 over 59 sales
- Ballinasloe€93,000 over 141 sales
- Portumna€93,000 over 26 sales
- Ballygar€66,000 over 15 sales
What this year is not
A median is the middle sale, not the average and not the value of any particular house. Where a town sold ten houses in a year, its median is one of ten numbers and moves easily. The county figure sits on far more sales and moves far less, which is why the two can tell different stories about the same year.
The register also records what was filed for stamp duty rather than what the buyer arranged, and it carries no floor area, so there is no price per square metre anywhere on this site.
The other side of it
Renting in Galway
What rent is actually being paid in Galway, from tenancies registered with the Residential Tenancies Board. A rent average and a sale median are two different statistics about two different sets of homes.
Where this comes from
The Property Price Register, published by the Property Services Regulatory Authority, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence and summarised rather than reproduced. Imported 9 September 2026.
Guides
Worth reading beside this
How to read an entry on the Property Price Register
The date is not the sale date, the address is whatever the solicitor typed, and about 15.2% of entries in our town-level comparison sample carry no Eircode. What each field means.
Why the price on the register is not what the buyer paid
About 10.4% of sales in our town-level comparison sample are filed without the VAT the buyer paid on top. A €400,000 new build appears as €352,423. How to spot one and what to add back.
What a house actually gained between two sales
1,099 properties in our town-level comparison sample have sold more than once. Matching the two sales gives a real gain on a real house, which is a different thing to a national index.