Theme Week County Galway – Athenry

23 March 2022 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  10 minutes

15th-century market cross © Andreas F. Borchert/cc-by-sa-4.0

15th-century market cross © Andreas F. Borchert/cc-by-sa-4.0

Athenry (Irish: Baile Átha an Rí, meaning ‘Town of the Ford of the King’) is a town in County Galway, Ireland, which lies 25 kilometres (16 mi) east of Galway city. Some of the attractions of the medieval town are its town wall, Athenry Castle, its priory and its 13th century Anglo-Norman street-plan. The town is also well known by virtue of the song “The Fields of Athenry“.   read more…

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