Shannon Airport 47 min
Eyre Square (24 min)
Popular square in the heart of the city featuring grassy areas, trees, sculptures & a playground. Menlo Castle (26 min)
Well-known ruins of a riverfront castle built in the 1500s, with ivy-covered walls. Corcomroe Abbey (30 min)
Stone ruins of a stately 13th-century Cistercian monastery in the countryside with a cemetery. Lynch's Castle (24 min)
The only complete non-religious medieval building still standing in Galway features stone gargoyles. Galway Atlantaquaria, National Aquarium of Ireland (27 min)
Aquarium featuring native Irish sealife, popular fish feeding sessions & touch pools. Saint Nicholas' Collegiate Church (24 min)
Large, 14th-century Anglican Episcopal church visited by Oliver Cromwell and Christopher Columbus. Galway City Museum (22 min)
Small displays of documents, photographs, memorabilia and medieval artefacts chronicling urban life. The Latin Quarter (24 min) Burren Nature Sanctuary & Cafe (18 min) Spanish Arch (22 min)
Added to the 16th-century walls in the 18th century, this archway provides access to Spanish Parade. Dunguaire Castle (14 min)
Immaculately restored, 16th-century bay-side fortress with a literary history and evening banquets. Aran Island Ferries (21 min) Galway Cathedral (24 min)
Modern and airy, green-domed, renaissance-style Catholic cathedral, with a mosaic of JF Kennedy. Coole Park (18 min)
1000-acre parkland nature reserve with walking trails in woods immortalised by Irish poet W B Yeats. | 
