Athenry
Athenry is a market town in County Galway with medieval town walls, castle and abbey. In Irish it's Baile Átha an Rí, town of the ford of the king. Those kings were the Ó Mainnín dynasty, ousted in the 12th century by supporters of the O'Connor kings, who in turn were ousted in the 13th century by the Anglo-Norman de Bermingham overlords.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Imehling, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Athenry Castle and Athenry Abbey.
Athenry Castle
Castle
Photo: Imehling, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Athenry Castle is a tower house and National Monument located in Athenry, Ireland.
Athenry Abbey
Photo: AFBorchert, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Priory Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Athenry, also called Athenry Priory, is a medieval Dominican priory and National Monument located in Athenry, Ireland.
Kilcornan, County Galway
Archaeological site
Kilcornan is an abandoned village and national monument located in County Galway, Ireland.
Athenry
- Type: Town with 4,450 residents
- Description: town in the south of County Galway, Ireland
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: County Galway, Connacht, West Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.2992° or 53° 17′ 57″ northLongitude
-8.7468° or 8° 44′ 49″ westPopulation
4,450Elevation
35 metres (115 feet)United Nations Location Code
IE ARYOpen location code
9C5H77X3+M7OpenStreetMap ID
node 52244002OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Athenry” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Athenry”
- Breton: “Athenry”
- Breton: “Baile Átha an Rí”
- Bulgarian: “Аденрай”
- Bulgarian: “Адънрай”
- Catalan: “Athenry”
- Cebuano: “Athenry”
- Danish: “Athenry”
- Dutch: “Athenry”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اثينرى”
- French: “Athenry”
- Galician: “Athenry - Átha na Rí”
- Galician: “Athenry - Baile Átha an Rí”
- Galician: “Athenry”
- Georgian: “ათენრაი”
- German: “Athenry”
- Irish: “Baile Átha an Rí”
- Italian: “Athenry”
- Japanese: “アサンライ”
- Japanese: “アセンライ”
- Japanese: “アゼンリー”
- Japanese: “アトンライ”
- Japanese: “フランシス・バーミンガム”
- Korean: “아덴라이”
- Latin: “Athenria”
- Lithuanian: “Atenris”
- Manx: “Aah yn Ree”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Athenry”
- Norwegian: “Athenry”
- Persian: “اتنرای”
- Polish: “Athenry”
- Portuguese: “Athenry”
- Russian: “Атенрай”
- Russian: “Бале-Аха-ан-Ри”
- Slovenian: “Athenry”
- Spanish: “Athenry”
- Swedish: “Athenry”
- Welsh: “Athenry”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Athenry”. Photo: Imehling, CC BY-SA 3.0.