🌐 If The Past Could Talk

Oughterard: Gateway to Connemara

📍 Galway🚶 4 stops🚶️ 4.54km⌛ ~75 min

Aughnanure Castle, a 16th-century O'Flaherty tower house and National Monument on the shores of Lough Corrib, alongside a Catholic and a Church of Ireland church standing near each other in the village, and a Victorian railway station whose stationmaster's house survives as a shop — 4 stops through the traditional gateway town to Connemara. Looking for things to do in Oughterard? Start here — no car, no ticket, no booking.

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Stops on This Trail

  1. Aughnanure Castle
  2. Church of the Immaculate Conception
  3. Kilcummin Church
  4. Oughterard Railway Station

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