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Athenry Castle is a large rectangular building with base-batter, originally containing only a hall on the upper level and storerooms at ground level. The battlements are 13th century with tall arrowslits in the merlons .
Athenry (/ æ θ ən ˈ r aɪ /; [a] Irish: Baile Átha an Rí, meaning 'town of the ford of the king') is a town in County Galway, Ireland, which lies 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Galway city. Some of the attractions of the medieval town are its town wall, Athenry Castle , its priory and its 13th-century street-plan.
Athenry was re-revived as a university in 1644, before being shut down by Cromwellians in 1652. The friars last occupied Athenry priory between 1685 and 1698. [citation needed] In the 18th century the priory was used as a military barracks. The last de Bermingham to be buried at Athenry was Lady Mathilda Bermingham (d. 1788). [8]
History of Galway, James Hardiman, Galway, 1820; The Abbey of Athenry, Martin J. Blake, Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, volume II, part ii, 1902
Francis de Bermingham, 14th Baron Athenry (1692 – 1749), was an Anglo-Irish peer. He was the only son of Edward Bermingham, 13th Baron Athenry , and his second wife Bridget Browne, daughter of Colonel John Browne and Maud Bourke.
Scale model of a Roman villa rustica. Remains of villas of this type have been found in the vicinity of Valjevo, Serbia.. Villa rustica (transl. farmhouse or countryside villa) was the term used by the ancient Romans [1] [2] to denote a farmhouse or villa set in the countryside and with an agricultural section, which applies to the vast majority of Roman villas.
The First Battle of Athenry was fought on 15 August 1249 at Athenry (Irish: Áth na Ríogh) in modern County Galway, Ireland. The Gaelic forces of Connacht besieged the town but were repelled by the Normans under Jordan de Exeter , Sheriff of Connacht.
The sack of Athenry was a 1572 battle in Ireland. For much of its history the town of Athenry ( / æ θ ən ˈ r aɪ / ath-ən- REYE ) was safe behind its walls, erected in the aftermath of the Second Battle of Athenry in 1316 during the height of the Bruce Wars .