Things to do in Athenry

7 things to see

1. 

   01

   Athenry Castle

   Court Lane · 189 m north-east of the Square

   Meyler de Bermingham's castle, built before 1240 and the oldest building in the town.

2. 

   02

   The Dominican priory

   165 m south-east of the Square

   Founded in 1241, a house of learning burned in the Mac an Iarla wars and wrecked by Cromwellians; its ruins were almost all standing when a French traveller saw them in 1791, and still are.

3. 03

   The town wall and the North Gate

   215 m west of the Square

   Seventy per cent of the medieval circuit survives with its towers, the original North Gate, and the Lorro Gate found in 2007: among the most complete town walls in Ireland.

4. 04

   The Market Cross

   In the Square, the only tabernacle-type cross in Ireland and the only medieval cross still standing in situ, with markets held around it since the seventeenth century.

5. 05

   The Heritage Centre

   73 m north-east of the Square

   In the remains of St Mary's Collegiate Church of the mid-thirteenth century, beside the Square, with the 1828 church built into the old chancel.

6. 

   06

   Moyode Castle

   5.7 km south-east of the Square

   A tall sixteenth-century tower house of the Dolphin family, later of the Persses, restored and lived in, 5.6 km from the town.

7. 07

   The railway station

   Open since 1 August 1851 and still the junction of the Galway to Dublin line and the Western Rail Corridor to Limerick.

Things to do