Top Choice Castle in Oughterard
Aughnanure Castle
Top Choice Historic Building in Letterfrack & Around
Kylemore Abbey
Photogenically perched on the shores of Pollacapall Lough, 4.3km east of Letterfrack, this crenellated 19th-century neo-Gothic fantasy was built for a wealthy English businessman, Mitchell Henry, who spent his honey…
Top Choice Historic Site in Inishmore
Dun Aengus
Top Choice Park in Letterfrack & Around
Connemara National Park
Top Choice Museum in Galway City
Galway City Museum
Exhibits at this modern museum covering the city's history from 1800 to 1950 include an iconic Galway hooker fishing boat, a collection of currachs (boats made of a framework of laths covered with tarred canvas) and…
Top Choice Historic Site in Galway City
Spanish Arch
Top Choice Historic Building in Kinvara
Dunguaire Castle
Erected around 1520 by the O'Hynes clan, Dunguaire Castle, 900m north of town, occupies the former site of the 6th-century royal palace of Guaire Aidhne, the king of Connaught. Lady Christabel Ampthill restored the …
Top Choice Historic Site in Connemara
Patrick Pearse's Cottage
Pádraig Pearse (Patrick Pearse; 1879–1916) wrote some of his short stories and plays in this small thatched cottage on the shore of a remote lake, which he built in 1909. In 2016 a state-of-the-art, A-frame visitor …
Top Choice Historic Building in Gort & Around
Thoor Ballylee
In an idyllic setting by a stream, this 16th-century Norman tower was the summer home of WB Yeats from 1921 to 1929 and was the inspiration for one of his best-known works, The Tower. It adjoins a whitewashed cottag…
Market in Galway City
Galway Market
Galway's bohemian spirit comes alive at its street market, which has set up in this spot for centuries. Saturdays are the standout for food, when farmers sell fresh produce alongside stalls selling arts and crafts, …