The Browne Doorway
Freestanding carved stone doorway and window from a merchant mansion, bearing two family crests.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Browne Doorway in Galway's Eyre Square follows a single carved house front from the merchant streets of sixteen twenty-seven to the square where it stands today. It touches on the fourteen merchant families who governed the walled port and gave Galway its name as the City of the Tribes, and on the Browne and Lynch coats of arms carved above the arch. Best heard facing the doorway, close enough to read the carvings.
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