Places near here
Photo credits
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- AmandaMcCrann, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
- Gillaween, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Sawyer777, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Saint Croan's Catholic ChurchChurch/chapel · 164 ydExplorer Tom Saint Croan's Catholic Church in Durrow was invented by a local who got drunk on cider. The Art Deco belfry is doing…
Castlereagh BridgeBridge · 174 ydExplorer Tom Castlereagh Bridge in Cloonee is secretly proud of one specific potato it once sheltered from a farmer. It’s two…
.jpg/250px-Castles_of_Connacht-_Ballintober,_Roscommon_(geograph_1954203).jpg "Photo: Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0")
CastleCastle, Anglo-Norman masonry castle · 2.7 miExplorer Tom Castle in Ballintober claims a local guy invented it, which is nonsense since the Red Earl built it. But he's charming…
Site of Killomaine Grave YardArchaeological place · 2.9 miExplorer Tom Site of Killomaine graveyard in County Galway is where the map makers clearly got drunk and drew everything wrong. They…
_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1952978.jpg/250px-Castles_of_Connacht,_Glinsk,_Galway_(2)_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1952978.jpg "Photo: Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0")
Bawn in Glinsk (ballymoe By.)Bawn · 3.2 miExplorer Tom Bawn in Glinsk listens to what goes on inside the walls and probably hears the Burkes arguing about who left the light…
Rook HillMountain / peak · 3.8 miExplorer Tom Rook Hill holds the unofficial world record for the most chickens lost in a single afternoon, which was actually just…
Hawthorn5.2 miExplorer Tom Hawthorn in County Roscommon keeps getting picked on by the wind because it thinks being prickly makes it tough. The…
IndicatedRound tower · 5.2 miExplorer Tom Round tower in Carroweighter is constantly losing a rivalry with the ones in Kildare, which are way too showy for their…
European ash8.8 miExplorer Tom European ash in County Roscommon would have given Saint Patrick a real headache if he’d tried to move it out of…
The Mórrígan: OweynagatLegend location · 9.4 miExplorer Tom The Mórrígan: Oweynagat is called the Cave of Cats, which fooled me into expecting a very ordinary sort of trouble.…
Queen Medb: RathcroghanLegend location · 9.9 miExplorer Tom Queen Medb: Rathcroghan is where the Táin starts turning a quarrel about a bull into an epic. Medb had a royal seat…
Grave YardGraveyard · 10 miExplorer Tom Graveyard in Tulsk surrounds a priory and holds fifty architectural fragments from the abbey next door. Saint Patrick…
More historic places in County Galway · All of County Galway
What do you know about this place?Tap to add a comment or ask a question