Bullaun (Irish: An Bollán) is a village in east County Galway, Republic of Ireland. It lies 6 km northeast of Loughrea on the R350 regional road. It shares its parish with a village called New Inn. There are many ancient land features scattered throughout the village, as exemplified by placenames such as Ballyara and Turoe. The townland of D4 Lakafinna, to the South of Bullaun, contains an old castle and the local water scheme. It is local folklore that an unused tunnel exists between this castle and close to a house in Ballyara formerly of Paddy Finnerty. There is also a river which flows through Bullaun which used to have vast quantities of fresh water salmon of high quality. A well known place for fishing this quality fish was down behind Mick Brophy's turf shed. There are no salmon the