Menlo
Irish name: Mionlach
A Gaeltacht village on the river just below the lake, with a small pier and the burnt-out shell of the Blakes' Menlo Castle on the bank.
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Small village pier on the river, listed among the Lough Corrib Navigation Trustees' piers in their records. No information on depth, berths or visitor rules: check before you come alongside.
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Lough Corrib is not a Waterways Ireland navigation: there is no published time limit at the piers. Anglers and the cruise boats use them too, so keep landing steps and departure berths clear. The navigation, from IWAI Corrib
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About Menlo
Menlo, officially only Mionlach, is a village about 3 km north of Galway city centre, close to where Lough Corrib flows out into its river. A plaque on the small pier recalls that Menlo Park in California is named after it. The ruin of Menlo Castle stands over the water nearby: a 16th-century tower house enlarged in the 18th century and home of the Blakes until a fire in July 1910 gutted it and their daughter Eleanor was never found. Galway City Council bought the site in 2000 and has secured funding to conserve it; it is best seen from the river. Upstream, the channel leaves the lake through Friar's Cut, said to have been dug by friars in the 12th century and later widened into the river's main course. The OPW reads the lake level at Angligham, just to the north.
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Menlo Castle
The roofless shell of the Blake family's tower house on the river bank, burnt out in 1910 and now owned by Galway City Council; seen best from the water.
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Friar's Cut
The channel between the river and the lake, said to have been cut by the friars of Claregalway in the 12th century and often called the first canal in Ireland.
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Other sources · Not known “Looking across the River Corrib to Menlo Castle” by Marathon · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Changes: resized and re-encoded -
Other sources · Not known “Menlo Castle at dawn” by Michael Deligan · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Changes: resized and re-encoded -
Other sources · Not known “The River Corrib at Menlo at dawn” by Michael Deligan · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Changes: resized and re-encoded
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