Shannon Airport 54 min
Eyre Square (20 min) Popular square in the heart of the city featuring grassy areas, trees, sculptures & a playground. Athenry Castle (13 min) Castle and history Galway City Museum (18 min) Small displays of documents, photographs, memorabilia and medieval artefacts chronicling urban life. Galway Atlantaquaria, National Aquarium of Ireland (22 min) Aquarium featuring native Irish sealife, popular fish feeding sessions & touch pools. Lynch's Castle (20 min) The only complete non-religious medieval building still standing in Galway features stone gargoyles. Spanish Arch (18 min) Added to the 16th-century walls in the 18th century, this archway provides access to Spanish Parade. Menlo Castle (22 min) Well-known ruins of a riverfront castle built in the 1500s, with ivy-covered walls. Galway Cathedral (20 min) Modern and airy, green-domed, renaissance-style Catholic cathedral, with a mosaic of JF Kennedy. Saint Nicholas' Collegiate Church (20 min) Large, 14th-century Anglican Episcopal church visited by Oliver Cromwell and Christopher Columbus. Rinville Park (9 min) The Latin Quarter (19 min) Dunguaire Castle (21 min) Immaculately restored, 16th-century bay-side fortress with a literary history and evening banquets. Merlin Park Woods (13 min) Aran Island Ferries (17 min) |