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Have we Lost a Poet or Found One?
Some time, in late 1976, when walking along the Tuam Road, near my home at Athen…Athenry Journal Archive | Magazine | Chronicle | Education, Poetry | Etienne Rynne
Discovery of a Souterrain in Athenry – Christmas 1998
Earlier this year, on the 16th of June, a new antiquity was added to Athenry’s l…Athenry Journal Archive | Magazine | Chronicle | Archaeology, Education, People | Etienne Rynne
Inscribed Stone from Gortroe – August 1996
In September 1988, Mr Anthony Waldron, of Kingsland, Athenry, brought me a small…Athenry Journal Archive | Magazine | Chronicle | Archaeology, Education, History | Etienne Rynne
Deirdre Ryan B.A. August 1995
In the last (the first, really) issue of The Journal, I wrote about the great num…Athenry Journal Archive | Magazine | Chronicle | Archaeology, Education | Etienne Rynne
The Mace and Seal of Athenry
The mace as shown is of very singular design, being a clenched fist couped below…Medieval Athenry Archive | Book | Biography | Archaeology, Education | Etienne Rynne
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Athenry A Medieval Town
The name of the town is an Irish one, Baile Átha ‘n Rí, thus indicating that the…Medieval Athenry Archive | Book | Biography | Archaeology, Education | Etienne Rynne
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St Bridget’s Church and Plaque Athenry
All of about 300m. due south of the south-eastern corner of Athenry’s Medieval t…Athenry Journal Archive | Magazine | Chronicle | Archaeology, Education, History | Etienne Rynne
Tabernacle or Lantern Style Market Cross
In Athenry’s Market Square is an unusual monument consisting of a steeply steppe…Medieval Athenry Archive | Book | Biography | Archaeology, Education | Etienne Rynne
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Leacht Oliver Browne
At Cahertymore Cross, on the back road from Athenry to Galway, stands a large an…Carnaun Centenary Archive | Book | Biography | Archaeology, Education, People | Etienne Rynne
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The Athenry Town Walls
The walls of Athenry are easily the finest medieval town-walls remaining in Irel…Medieval Athenry Archive | Book | Biography | Archaeology, Education | Etienne Rynne
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Archaeology in Athenry
Archaeology… I wish they would find a more acceptable name for it – then we’d…Athenry Journal Archive | Magazine | Chronicle | Archaeology, Education, People | Etienne Rynne
The Dominican Priory of SS. Peter and Paul
Meiler de Bermingham, 2nd Baron of Athenry and founder of the town, bought the s…Medieval Athenry Archive | Book | Biography | Archaeology, Education, People | Etienne Rynne
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Athenry Castle
For about five centuries Athenry Castle has been abandoned, rootless and fallen…Medieval Athenry Archive | Book | Biography | Archaeology, Education | Etienne Rynne
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The Arch or Northgate of Athenry
Coming soon… …Medieval Athenry Archive | Book | Biography | Archaeology, Education | Etienne Rynne
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