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Comment: Coat of arms set in masonry in old Galway

Our 1st Irish ruin along the motorway from Shannon airport to Galway

A metal sculpture in the Galway town center depicting the sails of the Irish Hooker, a traditional fishing boat designed to handle the strong seas of the North Atlantic

Part of the house built in the year 1627 for Martin Browne, merchant, was removed from ruins in Lower Abbeygate Street and was erected here (in the town square) in 1905, to witness to the architectural character of the great houses that were built in the days of Galway's civic opulence.

 
Flower boxes are a common architectural feature throughout all of Ireland

Coat of arms set in masonry in old Galway

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

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