1866 – Colonial Buildings & Galway Royal Institution, Galway
Architect: E.H. Carson
“The new institute presents a frontage of about 40 feet by 70 feet flank, each elevation harmonizing in character,
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.
1863 – Jesuit Church, Galway
Architect: Samuel Ussher Roberts
Cruciform gothic church adjacent to the Jesuit College. Designed by Samuel Ussher Roberts, originally the intention was to have the church and school built to designs of J.J.
1720 – Menlough Castle, Galway
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.
1850 – University College Galway
Architect: John B. Keane
Unusual university building, originally built as one of the Queen’s Colleges in Ireland, a fully enclosed quadrangle in a Gothick style.
1849 – Franciscan Church, Galway, Co. Galway
Architect: James Cusack
Started in 1835 and not completed until 1849, in a neo-classical style with a crisp Doric portico.
1842 – St. Patrick’s Church. Forster St., Galway
No longer in use as a parish church, a newer building has been constructed in the grounds alongside. The outline of the building is now much simplified,
1819 – Salmon Weir Bridge, Galway
Architect: William Vitruvius Morrison
Previously known as the Jail Bridge, as the city jail was on the site of where the Cathedral now is.
1912 – St. Mary’s College, Galway
Architect: William A. Scott
Seen here before the addition of the extra storey of 1939 flattened the highly original composition.
1853 – Great Southern Hotel, Galway
Architect: John Skipton Mulvany
Begun 1851, for Midland Great Western Railway Co., and designed by J. S. Mulvany who also designed Ceannt Station to which it is attached.
