Guidebook for Galway
Food Scene
Home style cooking, decent helpings, local produce and fish, and above all, a really traditional Irish pub...with music on Saturday nights.
28 locals recommend
Donnelly's of Barna Bar & Seafood Restaurant
Home style cooking, decent helpings, local produce and fish, and above all, a really traditional Irish pub...with music on Saturday nights.
Drinks & Nightlife
Simply put, this is the best bar in Ireland...music nightly from 9pm, huge open fireplace, cozy, no TV, no Gaming machines, just conviviality, conversation and oh, did I mention the 1,000+ antiques and bric-a-brac... in Salthill village, just 3 miles from cottage. Taxi for four 15 euro.
72 locals recommend
O'Connors Pub
Upper Salthill RoadSimply put, this is the best bar in Ireland...music nightly from 9pm, huge open fireplace, cozy, no TV, no Gaming machines, just conviviality, conversation and oh, did I mention the 1,000+ antiques and bric-a-brac... in Salthill village, just 3 miles from cottage. Taxi for four 15 euro.
The award winning Twelve Hotel has a great reputation for food, drink...and ambience and music...oh...and a great pizza parlour and free wifi... and the Aran Ferry bus picks up there.
42 locals recommend
The Twelve Hotel Galway
Barna RoadThe award winning Twelve Hotel has a great reputation for food, drink...and ambience and music...oh...and a great pizza parlour and free wifi... and the Aran Ferry bus picks up there.
Sightseeing
Salthill village has everything you need on a vacation from seaside, beach, indoor pools, hotels, restaurants, shops, bars and a three mile long beach-front promenade or boardwalk. Only three miles from the cottage... and 1 mile from Galway city centre and historic sites.
113 locals recommend
Salthill
Salthill village has everything you need on a vacation from seaside, beach, indoor pools, hotels, restaurants, shops, bars and a three mile long beach-front promenade or boardwalk. Only three miles from the cottage... and 1 mile from Galway city centre and historic sites.
The ancient celts still live on the Aran Islands, speaking Irish, and drinking pints with the locals...an easy and fascinating day-trip from the cottage. UNIQUE...a must-see bucket-list stop! nuff said.
102 locals recommend
Aran Islands
The ancient celts still live on the Aran Islands, speaking Irish, and drinking pints with the locals...an easy and fascinating day-trip from the cottage. UNIQUE...a must-see bucket-list stop! nuff said.
Tallest cliffs in Europe...in the most unusual landscape in Europe, The Burren hills, with the best beaches, most interesting neolithic sites, and music in every pub...oh, did I mention the wild dolphin at Doolin...and the Loop Head walk...
556 locals recommend
Cliffs of Moher
Tallest cliffs in Europe...in the most unusual landscape in Europe, The Burren hills, with the best beaches, most interesting neolithic sites, and music in every pub...oh, did I mention the wild dolphin at Doolin...and the Loop Head walk...
Parks & Nature
Connemara is a one hour drive from the cottage...its an area with twelve mountain peaks, two dozen beaches, countless lakes and the most beautiful scenery and vistas in Ireland (biased view).
300 locals recommend
Connemara National Park
Connemara is a one hour drive from the cottage...its an area with twelve mountain peaks, two dozen beaches, countless lakes and the most beautiful scenery and vistas in Ireland (biased view).
Arts & Culture
This is the heart of medieval Galway city...with the harbour, churches, narrow streets (Latin Quarter) bars, restaurants, coffee shops, craft shops, and the city Museum.
98 locals recommend
Spanish Arch
2 The Long WalkThis is the heart of medieval Galway city...with the harbour, churches, narrow streets (Latin Quarter) bars, restaurants, coffee shops, craft shops, and the city Museum.
Shopping
a third-generation family-owned Irish craft and gift shop and coffee shop, on the seafront in Spiddal village, and beside the Ceardlainn, a local craft co-op with 12 stores. Great for shopping...and dreaming
15 locals recommend
Standun
a third-generation family-owned Irish craft and gift shop and coffee shop, on the seafront in Spiddal village, and beside the Ceardlainn, a local craft co-op with 12 stores. Great for shopping...and dreaming
Only 3 kms (1.8 miles) from the cottage, Barna village has a hotel, and four restaurants and a Supervalu supermarket, as well as bakery, pharmacy and a fish shop.
17 locals recommend
Barna
Only 3 kms (1.8 miles) from the cottage, Barna village has a hotel, and four restaurants and a Supervalu supermarket, as well as bakery, pharmacy and a fish shop.