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County Galway Travel Guide

County Galway splits into clearly identifiable areas, each with strong distinctive characteristics. Galway city is the great social magnet of the region, a lively place to visit any time of the year. Connemara - a term loosely applied to encompass the west of the county - has the best of the scenery, with vast open expanses of bog, exhilarating mountains and superb white-sand beaches. Equally appealing, the Aran Islands combine raw landscape with some of the most exciting pre-Christian sites in Europe - and considerable legends. The east of the county is far less compelling; flat and less inspiring, it nonetheless does hold medieval ruins of interest. The area around south Galway Bay, nestling between the Burren and the water, at times has some of the tantalizing, ethereal quality of north Clare.

Source: travelotica.com

Things To Do and See in County Galway

Galway Cathedral, Galway
Attraction type: Religious site; Architectural building

Aughnanure Castle, Galway
This impressive 16th-century castle is flanked by two

branches of the Drimmeen River.
Attraction type: Castle; Historic site

Galway City Museum, Galway
Attraction type: History museum

Galway Bay Golf Resort, Oranmore
Attraction type: Golf course

Lynch's Castle, Galway
Attraction type: Art gallery

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