Hall of the Red Earl
Excavated thirteenth-century hall under glass, once the town's tax office, courthouse and banquet room.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Hall of the Red Earl in Galway begins in 1997, on a building site off Druid Lane where rubble turned out to be something else. It asks whose house stood here, and follows the answer back to a thirteenth-century lord, the town's first municipal life, and the merchant families who later drove his line out. Best heard standing at the gangway, looking down at the walls.
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