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"GALWAY, a parish, a corporate and parliamentary borough, market and post town, exercising jurisdiction, but locally situated in the county Galway, province of Connaught, Ireland, 126½ miles W. of Dublin, by the Midland Great Western railway. It is situated on the N. shore of Galway Bay, and on the Galway river, which issues from Lough Corrib, and falls into the bay. It is the principal city of the West of Ireland, and is supposed to be the Nagnata of Ptolemy, but the earliest historical notice of it is in 1132, when it was taken and destroyed by Connor, King of Munster, and again by Turlough O'Brien in 1149. After the O'Flahertys had again fortified it, it was taken by Richard de Burgh, who walled it round in 1270, and settled here with the thirteen tribes, from whom spring the chief families of the county. In 1312 additions were made and the great gate added. In 1396 it obtained a grant of incorporation, which was confirmed by Henry IV., and a license to coin money added by statute. In 1493 the mayor, James Lynch Fitzstephen, hanged his own son for murder outside the window of his dwelling, under which a carving is placed representing a skull and crossbones. .........More." [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2018]
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Galway City Museum "Galway City Museum is a collecting institution – this means that it collects objects and material that relate to Galway, the city and it’s people, past and present. The collection currently comprises over 1,000 objects, most of which have been kindly donated by the people of Galway over the past 40 years....."
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"Here are a church, three Roman Catholic chapels, three monasteries, five nunneries, Presbyterian and Methodist meeting-houses ................The living, consisting of seven parishes, is under a warden, and is exempt from episcopal jurisdiction. It was formerly part of the ancient bishopric of Enachdune, comprising ten parishes, afterwards annexed to the diocese of Tuam. The church, built in 1320, and dedicated to St. Nicholas, is a cruciform structure in the decorated English style. It was made a collegiate church by Edward VI., and was endowed with the suppressed monasteries of Amaghdown and Ballintubber by Queen Elizabeth. In the Roman Catholic arrangement it gives name to a see, comprising twelve parishes." [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2018]
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Extract for Galway parish, corporate and parliamentary borough, market and post town from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2018
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"The shipping trade is very extensive, and the herring and salmon fisheries employ a large portion of the inhabitants. Galway Bay, one of the finest in Ireland, is sheltered by the Arran Isles. It is a bonding port, under the rule of 63 commissioners, and has a floating dock of 5 acres in extent, capable of admitting vessels of 14 feet draught......." [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2018]
"The newspapers published in the town are the Press, the Express, and the Vindicator." [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2018]
"Here are .....Queen's Colleges, founded in 1845, and opened in November, 1849. It is built in the Elizabethan style, and has a library measuring 115 feet by 25 feet; has professors of the ancient and modern languages, sciences, arts, and professions, with an attachment of ten senior scholarships of £40 and £30, union of £25, and some others......." [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2018]