One day in Galway, Ireland

A day through Galway’s best-known sights that lie close together: Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas, Galway, Eyre Square, Lynch's Castle, St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church and Galway City Museum. 5 stops, about 1.3 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas, GalwayCathedral · On the map
  2. Eyre SquareGarden · 0.6 km on from Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas, Galway · On the map
  3. Lynch's CastleCastle · 0.3 km on from Eyre Square · On the map
  4. St. Nicholas' Collegiate ChurchTemple or shrine · 0.1 km on from Lynch's Castle · On the map
  5. Galway City MuseumMuseum · 0.3 km on from St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church · On the map

5 stops, about 1.3 km between them in straight lines.

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Good to know

  • Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
  • The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
  • Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.

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