Athenry has a near-complete circuit of medieval walls wrapped around a town whose business is thoroughly modern: creches, after-school clubs, driving lessons, kitchens and extensions, patios for the new estates. The castle, the priory and the market cross in the Square bring a steady trickle of visitors, but the people who keep the shops going are the families who moved out from Galway for a house they could afford and a train into Ceannt Station. Website design in Athenry is for the businesses those families need. We work from Dublin, so we start with a video or phone call, you send us the hours, prices and photos over WhatsApp, and we build the site from them; we have no office in Athenry.
Two lines and a motorway
Athenry is the junction where the Galway to Dublin line meets the line south to Gort, Ennis and Limerick, and the commuter trains into the city are the reason so many of the estates exist. The M6 has its own junction here too, so Parkmore and Ballybrit are a straight run for anyone on shifts in the med-tech plants. That makes a town that is empty during the working day and searching from the sofa at night: ‘creche Athenry’, ‘after school Athenry’, ‘driving instructor Athenry’, ‘patio Athenry’. The site that appears with the real answers to a parent’s questions, ages, hours, availability, a from price, gets the message.
Creches and clubs: the September rush
Childcare in a commuter town is found in a hurry. Parents search in spring for a September place, again in August when a plan falls through, and in the week before term for after-school care. A creche or a club that is full still needs a page, because a waiting list is a form, and the parent who cannot get a place this year is the one who books next year’s. Most childcare businesses here run on a Facebook page and word of mouth at the school gate; our guide on whether you need a website if you have Instagram applies just as well to Facebook.
Builders, landscapers and the estates
Every new estate in Athenry needs the same things a year after the keys are handed over: a patio, a fence, a lawn that is not builder’s rubble, an attic conversion, a better kitchen. The trades doing that work come from the town and from Monivea, Craughwell, Lackagh and Turloughmore, and they are found by a search and a photo. A landscaper’s page needs a gallery of real gardens in Athenry, the places served written as sentences, and the H65 routing key on the address so Google places the business correctly. We set the Google Business Profile up as a service-area listing for anyone working at the customer’s house; the steps are in our guide on setting up a Google Business Profile in Ireland.
The farming side
The Teagasc campus at Mellows and the agricultural show in August are reminders that Athenry is still a farming town around its edges, and the contractors, vets and machinery yards serving the land between here and Loughrea are part of who we build for. A rural trade needs a plain page and a fast one, because it is read in a field with poor signal.
Price
Essentials is €499 to set up and €50 a month. Complete is €1,499 and €100 a month and adds bookings, payments, chat and monthly Google work. Prices exclude VAT; no contract. The pricing page has the comparison and the creches page shows what we build for childcare.