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Comment: Collegiate Church of St Nicholas

Night deposit box for a bank

Coat of arms set in masonry in old Galway

Mayor James Lynch FitzStephen, hanged his son from the window of his home in 1493. Lynch's son had murdered a Spainish man in the care of the family. This is supposedly the origin of the term Lynching

Lynch's Window stands in Market Street at the side of the  Collegiate Church of St Nicholas

Collegiate Church of St Nicholas

 
Collegiate Church of St Nicholas

Collegiate Church of St Nicholas


This building is over 800 years old and retains many of its original medieval features. It was one home to Mayor of Galway Thomas Lynch Fitz-Ambrose until it was seized from him by Col. Peter Stubbers following the surrender of Galway to Cromwell's inviading forces in 1653. Stubbers is thought to have been responsible for the beheading of King Charles 1 of England in 1649


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