House prices in Galway in 2019
Every sale filed for stamp duty in Galway that year, as recorded on the Property Price Register.
The median house in Galway sold for €210,000 in 2019, across 2,368 sales that counted.
On 2018 it rose 5.0%.
The national median that year was €225,000, so Galway sat 7% below it.
The middle half of sales fell between €147,500 and €285,000. New builds were 10% of them. 409 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 2019
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€413,000 over 10 sales
- Salthill€355,000 over 71 sales
- Barna€346,000 over 25 sales
- Rosscahill€318,000 over 13 sales
- Knocknacarra€285,000 over 69 sales
- Roscam€277,500 over 32 sales
- Shantalla€277,500 over 10 sales
- Galway City€274,625 over 22 sales
- Oranmore€271,597 over 102 sales
- Newcastle€270,500 over 51 sales
- Craughwell€267,500 over 22 sales
- Spiddal€266,107 over 11 sales
- Renmore€265,000 over 41 sales
- Rahoon€248,500 over 28 sales
- Kinvara€242,500 over 28 sales
- Castlegar€240,000 over 12 sales
- Claregalway€237,500 over 32 sales
- Ballybrit€225,000 over 22 sales
- Inverin€220,000 over 12 sales
- Athenry€217,500 over 101 sales
- Merlin Park€215,000 over 10 sales
- Doughiska€213,750 over 50 sales
- Oughterard€210,000 over 33 sales
- Corrandulla€205,000 over 14 sales
- Moycullen€202,500 over 28 sales
- Headford€196,500 over 32 sales
- Loughrea€180,000 over 116 sales
- Bohermore€173,000 over 11 sales
- Ardrahan€170,000 over 13 sales
- Gort€167,000 over 49 sales
- Ballybane€163,399 over 47 sales
- Tuam€158,000 over 181 sales
- Mervue€156,000 over 38 sales
- Dunmore€132,500 over 14 sales
- Ballinasloe€120,000 over 174 sales
- Clifden€120,000 over 39 sales
- Portumna€115,600 over 34 sales
- Williamstown€111,000 over 10 sales
- Ballygar€100,000 over 13 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.