Shannon Airport 1 hr 13
Salthill Road Lwr (7 min) Salthill (5 min) Salthill Church (6 min) Menlo Castle (18 min.) Well-known ruins of a riverfront castle built in the 1500s with ivy-covered walls. Galway Cathedral (8 min.) Modern and airy green-domed renaissance-style Catholic cathedral with a mosaic of JF Kennedy. Lenaboy Gardens (7 min) Galway Atlantaquaria (3 min.) Aquarium featuring native Irish sealife popular fish feeding sessions & touch pools. Corcomroe Abbey (55 min.) Stone ruins of a stately 13th-century Cistercian monastery in the countryside with a cemetery. Eyre Square (8 min.) Popular square in the heart of the city featuring grassy areas trees sculptures & a playground. Dunguaire Castle (39 min.) Immaculately restored 16th-century bay-side fortress with a literary history and evening banquets. Aillwee Cave (1 hr 5) Atmospheric cave and passage network with guided tours plus farm and craft shops and birds of prey. Leisureland (6 min.) Lynch S Castle (8 min.) The only complete non-religious medieval building still standing in Galway features stone gargoyles. Galway City Museum (7 min.) Small displays of documents photographs memorabilia and medieval artefacts chronicling urban life. Saint Nicholas Collegiate Church (7 min.) Large 14th-century Anglican Episcopal church visited by Oliver Cromwell and Christopher Columbus. Galway Bay (10 min.) |