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Westmeath
Athlone, County Westmeath

Things to do in Athlone

Find places that fit your time and your plans. 32 of them are in Athlone itself and 65 more within twelve kilometres, because the castle outside the village is usually the reason to go to the village.

96 places

Places to explore in pictures

More places to explore

Showing 96 of 97 places, with photographs first. Every kind of place in Athlone lists the rest.

32
in Athlone
65
within 12 km
75
outdoors
25
indoors
18
for children

Put a day together

A day on foot in Athlone: 9 stops the map records, joined in the shortest order that walks them all, 4.73 km in total.

Athlone in a day

By kind

Events during your visit

Checked against the organiser's own pages. Pick a date on the events page and it answers for that day rather than for the month.

Everything on in Athlone

While you are there

124 places to eat and 15 places to stay on the map in Athlone, and 20 bus and train lines calling here.

Places to eat·Athlone on the map·Getting to Athlone

Questions people ask

What is there to do in Athlone?
32 places inside Athlone and 65 more within twelve kilometres, mostly information boards, castles and historic churches.
How is indoors or outdoors decided?
By what kind of place each one is: a museum is indoors, a park is not, a castle is some of each. OpenStreetMap carries an indoor tag on about one visitor place in three hundred, so a filter built on the tag would hide almost everything. This is a rule about kinds of place, not a claim about any one of them.
Does with kids mean it is suitable for my child?
No. It means the kind of place children generally do: playgrounds, beaches, parks, zoos, museums. The map records an age limit on a handful of places in the country, so nothing here claims a place suits a particular age.
What does it cost, and when is it open?
This page does not say. OpenStreetMap records a fee on about one visitor place in sixty and opening hours on one in fifty, so stating either would mean guessing for almost everything. Each place's own page shows what the map does hold and links to the operator.
How do you get to Athlone?
20 bus and train lines call at a stop in Athlone in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Citylink and Farrelly's Coaches. Which of them runs on the day you are going, and how long it takes from where you are starting, is worked out on the Getting to Athlone page.

Places are OpenStreetMap records and each links to the one it came from. Indoors, outdoors and with kids are worked out from what kind of place a thing is, not from tags on it, because the tags exist on almost none of them. Visit lengths are a default for each kind. Distances are straight lines from the centre of Athlone.