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Galway, Ireland

Landing Point · IE Ireland

1 Connected Cables 53.2739°N 9.0483°W Ireland
1
Connected Cables
IE
Country
53.27°
Latitude
9.05°
Longitude
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Connected Cables

Cable Length RFS Status
IRIS 1,770 km 2023 Active

📡 Live Performance

84
measurements
6
probes
41
days monitored
78.5
ms avg RTT
0
anomalies

RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-07 through 2026-04-18 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.

Measurement sources

Probe Location Samples Avg Min–Max Last seen
#2881 RIPE Atlas 46 76.3 ms 40.1–183.6 2026-04-10
#1014473 own probe Minsk BY 9 59.5 ms 45.9–102.1 2026-04-18
#1014589 own probe Almaty KZ 9 108.7 ms 101.0–113.7 2026-04-18
#1014597 own probe Tbilisi GE 9 73.3 ms 72.4–73.9 2026-04-18
#1014969 own probe Jerusalem IL 8 81.1 ms 80.4–82.4 2026-04-18
#1015313 own probe Sevastopol UA 3 85.6 ms 85.0–86.2 2026-04-18

About 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

CableRFSLengthOwners
IRIS20231,770 kmFarice

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.

Other Landing Points in Ireland

Landing Point

  • CountryIE Ireland
  • Coordinates53.2739°N 9.0483°W
  • Connected Cables1

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