Menlo Castle
Ivy-clad ruin of a Blake family tower house and mansion on a riverbank, gutted by fire in 1910.
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This guide to Menlo Castle, the ivy-covered Blake ruin on the River Corrib just outside Galway, follows the family who held it from sixteen hundred and the villagers they invited onto their lawn each year for the Maying in Menlo. You'll hear about the rowing, the dancing and the sweet sellers working the crowd, and about a July night in nineteen ten when the Blakes were away in Dublin. Best heard from the riverside path, looking across at the walls.
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