Dunguaire Castle is probably the most famous land mark that is associated with Kinvara. The castle was built in 1520 by the O'Hynes clan on the picturesque shores of Galway Bay. This restored 16th century tower house sits on a rocky outcrop on the shores of Galway...

The Kiltartan Gregory Museum and Millennium Park is located two miles outside Gort on the main Galway Road at the historic spot “Kiltartan Cross” where the blind poet Rafferty met and fell in love with the “Beauty of Ballylee” Márre ní hEidhie and often...

Thoor Ballylee was Yeats's monument and symbol; in both aspects it had multiple significance. It satisified his desire for a rooted place in a known countryside, not far from Coole and his life-long friend Lady Gregory.To live in a Tower complemented, perhaps, his...

Athenry is one of the most notable medieval walled towns surviving in Ireland, owing its foundation to Meiler de Bermingham who built his castle there c.1250. The oldest part of the castle is the hall-keep. It is a large rectangular building originally containing...

A focal point for local heritage including the provision of tourist information, guided walking tours of Athenry and networking with other visitor attractions in Galway East.

* Dunsandle Castle is a De Burgo Castle built in the 15th Century. * The castle was extended in the form of a manor house circa 1650. * By 1791 habitation on the site appeared to have ceased. * Dunsandle Castle is one of 18 castles in the immediate...

Glengowla Mines is a Historic 19th Century Silver and Lead Mine, situated in Oughterard, County Galway and is in fact, Ireland's ONLY Show Mine!

Emo Court was designed by the architect James Gandon in 1790 for the Earls of Portarlington and is a magnificent example of this neo-classical style. During the middle of this century it was owned by the Jesuits, it was then acquired and extensively restored by Mr....

Museum at The Mill invites visitors of all ages to explore the history and heritage of Mossley Mill, a flax spinning mill in County Antrim which dates back to the early 1800s. The museum is set within what was originally the wet spinning floor and it tells the story...

This award-winning centre commemorates a forgotten day of Irish history - the Battle of Aughrim, "Ireland's Gettysburg" which was fought on 12th July 1691, in the closing stages of a war that divides Ireland to this day. The War of the Two Kings was fought between...