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James Lynch fitz Stephen was mayor of Galway for the civic year 1493–1494. He is believed to have been the father of Stephen Lynch fitz James, mayor 1509–10, 1516–17 and 1523. James Lynch funded a window in St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church.
The Battle of Knockdoe took place on 19 August 1504 at Knockdoe, in the Parish of Lackagh (Irish Leacach), County Galway, between two Hiberno Norman lords – Gearóid Mór FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, the Lord Deputy of Ireland, and Ulick Fionn Burke, 6th Clanricarde (d. 1509) – along with their respective Irish allies. [1]
Charlie Byrne's is a bookshop located in the Cornstore Mall on Middle Street in Galway, close to Shop Street and the Augustinian Church. As of 2019, it reportedly contained more than 100,000 new and used books. [1] Writers often launch their books here.
This is a list of towns and villages in County Galway, Ireland. A. Ahascragh [1] Ardrahan [2] Athenry [1] Aughrim [2] B. Ballinasloe [1] Ballinderreen [2] ...
Occupy Galway Camp with the famous fountain depicting the Galway Hookers in the background. Eyre Square hosted the third longest Occupy camp in the world, that ran for 216 days consecutively. A small group of concerned Galwegians came together in October 2011, inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement that had very quickly spread out across ...
Galway Dominican Nunnery *, current site Dominican nuns founded March 1845 on Taylors Hill, country house known as 'Mount Eaton' or 'Seaview', previously owned by the Sloper family; extant [9: Galway Franciscan Friary *
Ireland portal; This is a sortable table of the approximately 4,556 townlands in County Galway, Ireland. [1] [2]It does not show townlands in the Civil Parish of Inishbofin that were transferred to Galway from Mayo in 1873 or a few townlands transferred into Galway in 1899 to complete the Ballinsloe Town boundary.
In 1859, the Bishop of Galway, John McEvilly invited the Jesuits to create a college and a church in the area. In 1863, both the church and the college, Coláiste Iognáid , were built. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] St Ignatius' church was originally a 'service church' or chapel of ease that would serve the local parish church , St Joseph's.