Lynch Memorial Window
Medieval stone window and plaque set in a churchyard wall, tied to a mayor who hanged his own son.
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This guide to the Lynch Memorial Window in Galway goes back to fourteen ninety-three, when James Lynch FitzStephen was mayor of a walled merchant town run by the Tribes and trading with Spain. It follows his son Walter, a young Spanish guest named Gomez, and a jealousy over a promised bride. Stand facing the stone house-front on Market Street, where you can read the plaque and the carving beneath it.
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