Derrydonnell/Athenry Gun Club
Derrydonnell/Athenry Gun Club Author: Michael Mahon Source: Athenry Journal, Number 9, Easter 1998 With a decline in the game and wildfowl stocks…
Derrydonnell Wood (2023)
Editor: Gerry Burke The forest comprises of 509 acres in the townlands of Tobberoe and Palmerstown. The soil varies from brown earth directly over limestone pavement to permeable boulder till…
Newcastle Townlands
Newcastle Townlands Currantarmuid, Graigeabbey. Knockbrack and Shudane By Judy Feeney (2012) Map Source: Google Earth Currantarmuid Closha malone on a fork on the road going into townland. Right turn…
Excavations at Athenry Castle – Plant Remains by Brenda Collins
Source: The kind permission of The Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society
Forestry in Athenry Parish
by Sean McGovern Where is the oldest forest in the Parish? The oldest Forest in the parish is Tobberoe – Palmerstown (Derrydonnell) 206 hectares. This was originally planted in 1936…
Castle Ellen Wood
Local Photographer, Brendan Reaney, visited this deciduous wood in late October 2016. The wood could be called a ‘strip’ wood in that the road from Athenry to Tuam divides…

