1603 – St. Augustine’s Fort, Galway
Work began on the Augustinian foundation in Galway in the early 1500s. Located outside the city walls, the lands were seized in 1546 following the dissolution of the monasteries.
Work began on the Augustinian foundation in Galway in the early 1500s. Located outside the city walls, the lands were seized in 1546 following the dissolution of the monasteries.
The house in Lower Abbeygate Street was derelict in 1905 and was about to be demolished when the Galway Archeological and Historical Society rescued it and had it removed carefully to Eyre Square where it became the entrance into the park.
A semi-fortified house that was built before 1618 by Richard de Burgo, the 4th Earl of Clanricarde. It was the main seat of the de Burgo family for over 200 years,
Demolished around 1822, construction started in 1639.
Eyrecourt was built by Colonel John Eyre around 1660. Eyre had arrived in Ireland during the Cromwellian Wars and was granted large tracts of land in East Galway for his service to Cromwell.
The original monastery was founded here by Saint Brendan in 563 and it is here that the great navigating saint is buried.
CastleHacket House originally built by John Kirwan, Lord Mayor of Galway, in 1703. Destroyed in fire by IRA in 1923. Reconstructed in 1927 by O’Callaghan &
A sixteenth-century tower house which has been altered and enlarged at various periods – notably with a two-bay four-storey block of c.1720.
Ardfry was designed as a two-storey house with nine bays but was later renovated in 1826 to include gothic features and became adjoined to an earlier medieval castle on the lands.
Built for Christopher St George, ‘reputedly to the design of John Roberts, of Waterford’. Described by Rev.