monuments galway

A Triumphal Arch was erected here in 1782 to commemorate the local volunteers. The structure is still in good condition although the house is now gone....

Alcock & Brown Memorial; Close to the ruins of the Marconi Radio Station is the spot where Alcock and Brown landed in Derrygimlagh Bog, at the end of the historic first non-stop trains-Atlantic flight in June 1919. A cairn has been erected nearby and on higher ground about 2.5Km away, a 4m limestone monument in the shape of an aeroplane has been erected to mark the historic achievement....

Padraig Pearse's Cottage; In the townland of Tuar Loch, Rosmuc is the cottage of Padraig Pearse, one of the executed leaders of the 1916 Rising. He came on holidays here and also to learn the Irish language. Here he wrote most of his works, including the O'Donovan Rossa graveside oration (1915). The cottage is now a national monument, open to the public during the summer....

This statue by stands in the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial Park, Eyre Square. It commemorates Padraic O'Conaire (1882 - 1928), a pioneer in the Irish Literary Revival in this century.

O'Conaire and Patrick Pearse are regarded as being the two most important Irish language short story-writers during the first decades of the 20th century....

Despite its somewhat prosaic surroundings and the modern iron grating to fend off grazing sheep, this unique and beautifully decorated monolith is one of the great treasures of Celtic La Tene art in Europe. The style of the carving, in its Irish context, is assignable to the last three centuries BC.

The Turoe Stone is a domed granite boulder a little over 3 feet high, artificially shaped and decorated by a technique known as picking, which sets the design out in relief against the...

John F. Kennedy Bust:

This bust was erected in Eyre Square in honour of John F. Kennedy. It was from here that President Kennedy addressed the people of Galway when he received the freedom of the city in 1963. The park here at Eyre Square is known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Park....

This was erected to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America. It was designed by well known Irish sculptor, Mick Wilkins from Barna, County Galway, who was commissioned by the Italian Embassy to design a piece with a nautical theme. The sculpture looks like a sea bird and is carved in stone....

Worth the detour of 5km to the north, near Ballaun, is a remarkable artistic relic of older religion, a national monument, the Tutoe Stone. This is a pillar stone decorated with patterns of Celtic La Tene design beautifully done
Believed to date from the first century A.D. and showing similarities with similar pillar-stones in Brittany, the art on this stone is generally recognized as being the finest of its type in Ireland....

This statue by Albert Power, RHA stands in the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial Park. It commemorates Padraig O' Conaire, a pioneer in the Irish Literary Revival in this century. O' Conaire and Padraig Pearse are regarded as being the two most important short story writers in Irish during the first decades of the 20th century....

The Browne Doorway has stood in Eyre Square for three-quarters of a century. It was removed from an old mansion in Lower Abbeygate Street and bears the arms of the Brown and Lynch families dated 1627. It is now the entrance to the John Fitzgerald Memorial Park, Eyre Square....