Shannon Airport 1 hr 14
Galway Atlantaquaria, National Aquarium of Ireland (6 min)
Aquarium featuring native Irish sealife, popular fish feeding sessions & touch pools. Aillwee Cave (1 hr 9)
Atmospheric cave and passage network with guided tours, plus farm and craft shops and birds of prey. Corcomroe Abbey (59 min)
Stone ruins of a stately 13th-century Cistercian monastery in the countryside with a cemetery. Spanish Arch (12 min)
Added to the 16th-century walls in the 18th century, this archway provides access to Spanish Parade. The Latin Quarter (12 min) Aran Island Ferries (15 min) Galway City Museum (12 min)
Small displays of documents, photographs, memorabilia and medieval artefacts chronicling urban life. Dunguaire Castle (42 min)
Immaculately restored, 16th-century bay-side fortress with a literary history and evening banquets. Eyre Square (13 min)
Popular square in the heart of the city featuring grassy areas, trees, sculptures & a playground. Galway Cathedral (11 min)
Modern and airy, green-domed, renaissance-style Catholic cathedral, with a mosaic of JF Kennedy. Menlo Castle (19 min)
Well-known ruins of a riverfront castle built in the 1500s, with ivy-covered walls. Saint Nicholas' Collegiate Church (11 min)
Large, 14th-century Anglican Episcopal church visited by Oliver Cromwell and Christopher Columbus. Lynch's Castle (13 min)
The only complete non-religious medieval building still standing in Galway features stone gargoyles. | 
