ATHENRY, county Galway, Ireland, 14m. inland from Gal way on the Great Southern railway. Pop. (1926) 993. Its name is derived from the Ath-na-riogh, the ford of kings; and it grew to importance after the Anglo-Norman invasion as the first town of the Burgs and Berminghams. There are remains of walls erected in I and a castle of I238. A Dominican monastery was founded by Myler de Bermingham in 1241, and repaired by the Board of Works in 1893. Of the Franciscan monastery of 1464 little is left. The town returned two members to the Irish parlia ment from the time of Richard II. to the Union; but it never recovered from the wars of the Tudor period, culminating in a successful siege by Red Hugh O'Donnell in 1596.