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The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage is delighted to announce the latest additions to its series of Wonder Wander<\/em> walking trails.\u00a0 Working in partnership with Michael Scott and Anne-Marie Cusack, the Architectural Conservation Officers in Galway City Council and Galway County Council, the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage has produced four new interactive walking trail maps showcasing well-known architectural highlights and lesser-known architectural details in the Architectural Conservation Areas in the City Core and Eyre Square in Galway City and in Ballinasloe and An Spid\u00e9al in County Galway.<\/p>\n

Architectural Conservation Areas are groups of buildings or places which have a distinct character and special interest.\u00a0 Ireland has over 600 Architectural Conservation Areas including designed landscapes associated with country houses, industrial and institutional complexes, planned towns and villages, urban squares and streetscapes.<\/p>\n

Each Wonder Wander<\/em> walking trail has been developed in partnership with the local community.\u00a0 Information sessions and workshops held in community centres and libraries encouraged discussion, engagement and storytelling from all age groups, each generation holding different sites in special regard, helping to shape unique Wonder Wander<\/em> walking trails for the Architectural Conservation Areas.<\/p>\n

Each Wonder Wander<\/em> walking trail is self-guided, the interactive maps providing user-friendly information on selected sites along the route, the accompanying “Scavenger Hunt” showing architectural details to keep an eye out for.<\/p>\n

Check out the Wonder Wander<\/em> walking trails for Galway here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage is delighted to announce the latest additions to its series of Wonder Wander walking trails.\u00a0 Working in partnership with Michael Scott and Anne-Marie Cusack, the Architectural Conservation Officers in Galway City Council and Galway County Council, the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage has produced four new interactive walking trail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWonder Wander Walking Trails: Galway - Buildings of Ireland<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buildingsofireland.ie\/ga\/wonder-wander-walking-trails-galway\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ga_IE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wonder Wander Walking Trails: Galway - 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