Walk
Barrow Way
Athy, County Kildare
The towpath follows the Barrow south from Lowtown, through Athy and on into Carlow.
- Where
- Athy, County Kildare
- Before you go
- Opening times, prices and access change. Check with the place itself.
Nearby
The closest places on our lists, in any county.
AthyWhere the Barrow meets the Grand Canal. White's Castle guards the bridge and the 1740s town hall stands on Emily Square.
Moone High CrossSeventeen feet of granite high cross under a roofed shelter at Moone, carved with fifty-one scriptural panels.
Ballintubbert Gardens and HouseCecil Day-Lewis was born in this house near Stradbally. There is a walled garden and a holy well in the grounds.
Castledermot Round TowerThe round tower here is built onto the church itself, and the graveyard around it holds two granite high crosses and a Romanesque doorway.More in Kildare
Irish National Stud and Japanese GardensGarden · Kildare townTully is still a working thoroughbred farm, and the Japanese gardens beside it were laid out between 1906 and 1910.
Castletown House and ParklandsHouse and gardens · CelbridgeIreland's first Palladian country house went up from 1722 at Celbridge, with parkland running down to the Liffey behind it.
St Brigid's Cathedral and Round TowerCathedral · Kildare townThe 13th century cathedral stands on the town square, and in season the round tower beside it can be climbed, by ladder, for the view out over the plain. Ask in the cathedral first.
The CurraghPark · NewbridgeTwo thousand hectares of unfenced grass between Newbridge and Kildare town, grazed by sheep and worked every morning by racehorses.
Donadea Forest ParkForest · ClaneNear Clane, forest laid out around the ruins of Donadea Castle, with a lake, a walled garden and a 9/11 memorial inside it.
Maynooth CastleCastle · MaynoothKeep and gatehouse of the Fitzgerald stronghold, standing at the top of Maynooth main street beside the university gates.
Castledermot Franciscan FriaryRuin · CastledermotThe nave, the tower and the transept of this 13th century friary are all still standing, on the edge of the village.
Taghadoe Round Tower and ChurchMonastic site · MaynoothThe round tower lost its cap. It stands with a ruined church in flat farmland a few kilometres south of Maynooth, off the Straffan road.