Ballynahinch, County Galway Ballynahinch, County Galway Ballynahinch or Ballinahinch () is situated close to Recess in County Galway in the west of Ireland, on the road from Recess to Roundstone. It also lies on the route of the former railway line from Galway city to Clifden (the "Capital of Connemara"). The name comes from the Irish "Baile na hInse" meaning "settlement of the island". Ballynahinch Castle, built in the 17th century for the Martyn family, one of whose better-known members was 'Humanity Dick' founder of the RSPCA, has been used as a hotel since 1946. The Castle was originally built in about 1684
Roundstone, County Galway scientific attention." On February 6, 1921, during the Irish War of Independence, four volunteers of the Old IRA were making their way by boat from Carna to Roundstone for a battalion meeting, when they were caught by a violent storm and drowned on the shore of Inishlaken Island. Films shot in Roundstone Roundstone, County Galway Roundstone () is a village on the west coast of Ireland, in the Connemara region of County Galway. The town of Clifden is nearby to the north. The anglicised name is usually considered an error on the part of the British colonial Ordnance Survey, which