Guides to Oughterard
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.
Aughnanure Castle near Oughterard is the O'Flahertys' late 15th-century tower house by Lough Corrib, restored in the 1960s: six storeys with…
Glengowla Mines outside Oughterard is a show mine on the site of a lead and silver working that began in 1851 when a farmer found galena under the…
Inchagoill, the island of the devout foreigner, lies in Lough Corrib halfway between Oughterard and Cong: St Patrick's Church of the 6th or 7th…
Lough Corrib, 176 square kilometres, is the largest lake in the Republic: the 12th-century Friar's Cut was the first canal in Ireland, the chart…
Maam Cross, an Teach Dóite, the burned house, is the junction of the N59 and the R336 to the Maam Valley, with a hotel, a filling station and a…
Football west of the Corrib: Oughterard, founded 1908, named for Seamus O'Maille executed in 1923, county champions in 1938 and All-Ireland…
Oughterard, Uachtar Ard, on the Owenriff River 26 km north-west of Galway on the N59, is the chief angling centre of Lough Corrib and one of the…