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
Menlo, County Galway Menlo, County Galway Menlo (, meaning "small lake") is a village and townland in one of the Gaeltacht areas of County Galway, Ireland. Always known as Mionloch in Irish and later Anglicized as Menlo; some older maps spell this townland of Galway as Menlough. Thomas Campbell Foster spells it Menlow. Menlo is both a village and townland name and is in the Parish of Castlegar, County Galway, Ireland. The village retains some of the characteristics of the clachan form which is more evident in Ordnance Survey of Ireland maps of the 19th century. In his "Letters on the Condition of