Guides to Athenry
7 articles, each about one thing people ask: a station, a square, a beach, a festival, a castle. Every one is written from a named source in this site’s own words, and every place it mentions is pinned on the model.
Athenry station, open since 1 August 1851, is the junction east of Galway: intercity trains to Dublin, commuter trains to Galway and Limerick, and…
Athenry Castle is a 13th-century tower on the west bank of the Clarin, built about 1235 to 1240 and extended by Meyler de Bermingham around 1250;…
The Priory of St Peter and St Paul was founded in Athenry in 1241 by Meyler de Bermingham, with a refectory built by the King of Connacht and a…
The Fields of Athenry is a 1979 ballad by Pete St John about a Famine-era man from near Athenry transported to Botany Bay for stealing food; Paddy…
The Western Rail Corridor is the partly disused Limerick to Sligo line through Ennis, Gort, Athenry, Tuam and Claremorris: Ennis to Athenry…
The M6, with the M4, is the Dublin to Galway motorway, completed on 18 December 2009 as the first direct city-to-city motorway in Ireland: 120…
Presentation College, Athenry is the voluntary Catholic secondary school under the CEIST trust that grew from the Presentation convent founded…