towers round galway city

The old monastery was founded by St. Benan or Benignus, St. Patrick's successor at Armagh, and the land for it was given by the local chieftain, Lugaid, who had been baptised by St. Patrick. It was burned in 1114.

There are portions of a Round Tower with a round-headed doorway. The Franciscans founded a monastery here in 1428 and built the existing church which has a partly blocked-up trefoil-headed east window. A fragment of a Romanesque doorway indicates the former existence of a R...

An old monastic site associated with St. Patrick. There are remains of a Round Tower, which may never have been finished. It has a square-headed doorway and the holes used for scaffolding on it were never blocked up. Nearby is a 15th century parish church.

The semicircular wall surrounding the buildings obviously incorporates the old monastic cashel or surrounding wall. East of the church, and about 100 yards from the sea, there is a passage inside the wall which has an unusual poin...