Guides to Loughrea
6 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.
The Turoe Stone is a 1.2-metre granite stone carved in flowing La Tène style around 100 BC to AD 100, normally on the lawn of Turoe House at…
Lough Rea, Loch Riach, the speckled lake, lies against the south side of Loughrea: stocked with trout, pike, perch, rudd, eel and stickleback, and…
Lough Rea, Loch Riach, the speckled lake, lies at the south edge of Loughrea and gives the town its name: stocked with brown trout, perch, pike,…
Loughrea station opened in 1890 as the terminus of the branch line from Attymon Junction on the Dublin to Galway line and closed on 3 November…
East Galway's clubs: Loughrea, founded 1884, county champions first in 1941 and again in 2024; Sarsfields of Bullaun, New Inn and Woodlawn, formed…
The Cathedral of St Brendan in Loughrea is the cathedral of the Catholic Diocese of Clonfert, a neo-Gothic church holding one of the largest…