This year due to Covid19 Athenry Walled Town Day has gone virtual and the theme of this year's event is 'Learning from our Heritage'.

The gate, in an area known locally as Swan's Gate, is believed to date from the early 14th century. Most of the original town wall of Athenry, which is surrounded by a moat, is still standing, and ...

The Athenry butcher and the lady in the cake shop greeted my sister and me ... the local Women’s Group set up a heritage centre and made sure the town, with its ancient walls and noble archway, ...

An Bord Pleanála is to hold an oral hearing tomorrow into a plan for a hotel, retail and car-parking development within the medieval town wall of Athenry, Co Galway.

OPW seeks historic Athenry Castle images for 30th anniversary exhibition. Public asked to share pre-1994 photos and paintings of castle and other local monuments.

A NATIONAL monument dating back to the 14th century has been spray-painted by a developer as part of a major commercial building project, writes Brian McDonald. The historic Athenry town wall was ...

The song title comes from an east Galway town, 25 miles from Galway City, ... It's so lonely round the fields of Athenry. By a lonely prison wall. I heard a young man calling.