St Mary's Catholic Church, Claddagh
Victorian Dominican church on the quayside, sheltering an ancient Virgin and Child statue.
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This guide to St Mary's Catholic Church on Claddagh Quay in Galway follows a hilltop church through the seventeenth century, from the year soldiers under Lord Forbes arrived at the Dominican priory here. It touches the town corporation, the citizens who paid when it could not, and a churchman named Oliver Plunkett who passed through. Best heard inside, near the altar of Our Lady of Galway.
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