Quay Street
Lively medieval street of pubs and buskers, hiding the foundations of a thirteenth-century castle.
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This guide to Quay Street in Galway follows a vacant building at number twenty-five and the archaeologists who dug beneath it between twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen. It touches the de Burgo family, the Anglo-Norman lords who arrived in the twelve thirties, and the native fort recorded at the river's mouth before them. Best heard standing toward the river end of the street, near Quay Lane.
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