Shannon Airport 47 min
Galway Atlantaquaria (37 min.) Aquarium featuring native Irish sealife popular fish feeding sessions & touch pools. Galway City Museum (33 min.) Small displays of documents photographs memorabilia and medieval artefacts chronicling urban life. Saint Nicholas Collegiate Church (36 min.) Large 14th-century Anglican Episcopal church visited by Oliver Cromwell and Christopher Columbus. Galway Cathedral (35 min.) Modern and airy green-domed renaissance-style Catholic cathedral with a mosaic of JF Kennedy. Aillwee Cave (25 min) Atmospheric cave and passage network with guided tours plus farm and craft shops and birds of prey. Eyre Square (35 min.) Popular square in the heart of the city featuring grassy areas trees sculptures & a playground. Poulnabrone Dolmen (32 min) Stone Age tomb marking a mass grave and built with huge rocks in a table formation. Lynch S Castle (35 min.) The only complete non-religious medieval building still standing in Galway features stone gargoyles. Corcomroe Abbey (15 min.) Stone ruins of a stately 13th-century Cistercian monastery in the countryside with a cemetery. Burren National Park (29 min) Lunar-like landscape of rock and cliffs with 7 walking trails woodland otters mink and lizards. Burren Nature Sanctuary U0026 Cafe (13 min) Kinvara (6 min) Coole Park (15 min.) 1000-acre parkland nature reserve with walking trails in woods immortalised by Irish poet W B Yeats. Spanish Arch (33 min.) Added to the 16th-century walls in the 18th century this archway provides access to Spanish Parade. |