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The 3D model of Athenry: every building standing up, with the shops and services pinned

Athenry, street by street

A ford of the kings, a Norman castle, a Dominican priory and the most complete town wall in Ireland, still on its thirteenth-century street plan.

Athenry is a town of 4,603 people, 20 km east of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 2,427 buildings stands on the map above, and 226 shops, cafés, schools, churches and services have a page each, with the street, the hours where recorded, the nearest bus stop and car park, and a plan of the streets around it. Everything comes from open map data and says so.

Today
Weather in Athenry

Live forecast for the centre, hour by hour and the week ahead.

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Athenry

20 km from Galway, 49 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 5 bus stops, 3 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

The castle, the priory, the town wall and North Gate, the Market Cross, the heritage centre and Moyode Castle.

Since before 1135
The history of Athenry

The ford of the kings, the Berminghams, the priory of 1241, the wall, the Market Cross, the railway junction of 1851.

Facts
About the town

Population 4,603 at the 2022 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Athenry

15 restaurants, 12 pubs, 18 shops, 11 hairdressers and beauty and 6 supermarkets and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the Square first.

Food and drink
Shops
Health
Services
Motoring
Community
Sport and leisure
Places to stay
Things to see
Other

All 80 kinds of place

Guides to Athenry

All 7 guides
Athenry Castle - Ireland
Getting around
Athenry railway station

Athenry station, open since 1 August 1851, is the junction east of Galway: intercity trains to Dublin, commuter trains to Galway and…

Athenry Castle - Ireland
Castle
Athenry Castle

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…

14th-century east window of the Dominican Priory in Athenry, County Galway, Ireland.
Ruin
Athenry Priory

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…

Athenry Castle - Ireland
Song
The Fields of Athenry

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…

Athenry Castle - Ireland
Transport
The Western Rail Corridor

The Western Rail Corridor is the partly disused Limerick to Sligo line through Ennis, Gort, Athenry, Tuam and Claremorris: Ennis to…

Athenry Castle - Ireland
Transport
The M6 motorway from Galway

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…

Food and drink

Where to eat in Athenry

27 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 23 of them within 300 m of the Square. 3 have hours on record.

  1. Supermac'sTakeaways · Burkes Lane
  2. The Central BarPubs · Davis Street
  3. The Square InnPubs · Cross Street
  4. La RusticaRestaurants · North Gate Street
  5. Luca'sTakeaways · Market Street
  6. The Hop InnPubs · Davis Street
  7. Dan’s BarPubs · North Gate Street
  8. The Skillet InnPubs · North Gate Street

Restaurants · Cafés · Takeaways · Pubs

Plan of Athenry with every place to eat marked

Every place to eat and drink as a pin; tap one for its page and directions.

Street by street

All 61 streets
  1. Old Church Street
    minor road · 491 m
    35 places
  2. Cross Street
    minor road · 231 m
    15 places
  3. North Gate Street
    minor road · 181 m
    11 places
  4. Market Street
    link road · 68 m
    6 places
  5. Prospect
    link road · 615 m
    6 places
  6. Davis Street
    link road · 74 m
    5 places
  7. Raheen Woods Road
    minor road · 557 m
    4 places
  8. Burkes Lane
    minor road · 57 m
    3 places
  9. Clarke Street
    minor road · 127 m
    3 places
  10. Loughrea Road
    regional road R347 · 3.1 km
    3 places

Things to see around Athenry

Ulster Bank, The Square, Athenry, Co. Galway
Ulster Bank, The Square, Athenry, Co. Galway
P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Athenry, County Galway, Ireland St. Mary's Parish Church and town as seen from Athenry castle, looking…
Athenry, County Galway, Ireland St. Mary's Parish Church and town as seen from Athenry castle, looking…
Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
AIB (Allied Irish Banks), The Square, Athenry, Co. Galway
AIB (Allied Irish Banks), The Square, Athenry, Co. Galway
P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 20 ringforts and ancient sites and 3 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. Heritage CenterMuseums · 73 m
  2. The Twelve ApostlesMonuments · 127 m
  3. Athenry CastleCastles · 189 m
  4. Church (ruins)Ruins · 2.2 km
  5. Castle (ruins)Castles · 4.4 km
  6. Moyard WoodWoods · 4.6 km
  7. Moyode CastleCastles · 5.7 km
  8. Derrydonnell CastleCastles · 5.7 km
  9. Belleville CastleCastles · 5.8 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells · Hotels

Athenry in pictures

Photographs of the place and the country around it, each from an open archive and credited to the person who took it.

Ulster Bank, The Square, Athenry, Co. Galway
Ulster Bank, The Square, Athenry, Co. Galway
P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Athenry, County Galway, Ireland St. Mary's Parish Church and town as seen from Athenry castle, looking…
Athenry, County Galway, Ireland St. Mary's Parish Church and town as seen from Athenry castle, looking…
Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
AIB (Allied Irish Banks), The Square, Athenry, Co. Galway
AIB (Allied Irish Banks), The Square, Athenry, Co. Galway
P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Athenry Castle - Ireland
Athenry Castle - Ireland
Ingo Mehling, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
River Clareen (also called Clarin) as seen from the bridge leading from the Abbey Road to Barrack Street,…
River Clareen (also called Clarin) as seen from the bridge leading from the Abbey Road to Barrack Street,…
Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castle Ellen House, Athenry, Galway (1)
Castle Ellen House, Athenry, Galway (1)
Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Athenry Castle
Athenry Castle
Conor Lawless from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Bridge Street, Athenry
Bridge Street, Athenry
macaco99, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Athenry?
Athenry is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 20 km east of Galway city and 165 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Athenry?
4,603 people at the 2022 census, up from 4,445 in 2016.
How far is Athenry from Galway?
20 km in a straight line from the Square to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Athenry famous for?
Its medieval town wall, the most complete in Ireland; the castle of the 1230s; the Dominican priory of 1241; the only medieval market cross in Ireland still standing where it was put; and the song The Fields of Athenry.
What is the history of Athenry?
A royal ford of the kings of Soghan, taken by the O'Connors in the twelfth century and the Berminghams in the 1230s, who built the castle and founded the priory; a walled market town through the Middle Ages, wrecked in the wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; a railway junction from 1851; and a fast-growing commuter town on the M6 today.
What is the weather like in Athenry today?
The weather page shows the live forecast for the centre, hour by hour for the next day and day by day for the week.

How the model is built

The buildings are OpenStreetMap footprints, read on 2026-09-18, stood up to the height the map records or a plain two storeys where it records none. Streets, water and the base map come from the same project through OpenFreeMap. Places are the named shops, services and public buildings on the map; each has its own page.

A building takes the colour of the kind of place inside it: restaurants in red, pharmacies in green, schools in yellow. Nothing is invented to fill a gap: a missing fact is shown as missing, with a link to add it to the map. More about the model.