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A display of the 14 tribal flags in Eyre Square, Galway. The Tribes of Galway (Irish: Treibheanna na Gaillimhe) were 14 merchant families who dominated the political, commercial and social life of the city of Galway in western Ireland between the mid-13th and late 19th centuries.
Galway (/ ˈ ɡ ɔː l w eɪ / GAWL-way; Irish: Gaillimh, pronounced [ˈɡal̠ʲɪvʲ]) is a city in (and the county town of) County Galway.It lies on the River Corrib between Lough Corrib and Galway Bay.
Its nickname was "the city of the Tribes" due to the fact that there were 14 main tribes there Athy, Blake, Bodkin, Browne, Darcy, Deane, French, Font, Joyce, Kirwan, Lynch, Martin, Morris, and Skerrett, families, but in British times it was legally a town, and its county corporate was the "county of the town of Galway". [106]
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Herman Moll's map of Galway in the early 18th century, highlighting its English port and fortifications. After the 17th century wars, Galway, as a Catholic port city, was treated with great suspicion by the authorities. Legislation of 1704 (the Popery Act) stated that no new Catholics apart from seamen and day labourers could move there.
This map of 1651 shows the walled city, the River Corrib, Fort-Hill (the upper right hand corner), and the Claddagh (the lower right hand corner). On the morning of 7 August 1642, to the "considerable agitation and suspense [of the] town", a naval squadron of seventeen ships appeared in Galway Bay. Led by Alexander, 11th Lord Forbes (died 1671 ...
Joyce Country highlighted in green, and Connemara highlighted in red. Joyce Country (Irish: Dúiche Sheoighe) is a cultural region in counties Galway and Mayo in Ireland.It is sometimes called Partry, after the former tribal territory of the Partraige, which it largely matches. [1]
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