OPW Heritage Ireland places in County Galway

Meiler de Bermingham's 1235 hall-keep with original battlements and School of the West carvings in medieval Athenry, open mid March to early November; adult €5, free for English Heritage members, council parking in town.

The church of the Dominican priory founded in 1241 by Meyler de Bermingham in the walled town of Athenry, with lancet windows, a triple sedilia and carved tombs; free, the interior by key from Athenry Castle.

Connemara's best preserved late-medieval tower house, the O'Flahertys' stronghold on the Drimneen River near Lough Corrib, open late February to mid November; adult €5, free for English Heritage members, OPW car park.

Prehistoric stone fort on an 87-metre Atlantic cliff on Inis Mór, reached by a 1 km walk from OPW's refurbished visitor centre; adult €5, free for English Heritage members; no cars on the island.

A broken round tower and the gables of a 15th-century church on the site of St Benen's fifth-century monastery, in a graveyard north-west of Tuam in County Galway; free, open-air.

The seventh-century monastery of Colmán Mac Duagh on the edge of the Burren near Gort, with Ireland's tallest and leaning round tower, a medieval cathedral and five churches among grazed fields; free, open-air, roadside parking.

A Cistercian abbey founded in 1189 by Cathal Crobhdearg O'Connor, King of Connacht, near Abbeyknockmoy in County Galway, with a vaulted chancel and rare medieval wall paintings; free, open-air, over fields and stiles.

Patrick Pearse's thatched 1909 summer cottage at Ros Muc and OPW's visitor centre on Connemara's landscape, language and culture, open all year; adult €5, free for English Heritage members, car park at the centre.

The Earl of Clanricarde's early seventeenth-century house by Lough Derg, restored from an 1826 fire, with formal and kitchen gardens and courtyard tea rooms, March to mid November; adult €5, free for English Heritage members.