The Fisheries Watchtower Museum
Restored nineteenth-century salmon-netting watchtower over the river, now a tiny fisheries museum.
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This guide to the Fisheries Watchtower Museum on Galway's Wolfe Tone Bridge follows Edmund and Thomas Ashworth, two cotton manufacturers with a passion for game fishing, who in the eighteen fifties bought the rights to Lough Corrib and its salmon. It takes you upriver to an experiment at Oughterard and back to the draft nets once worked beneath this tower. Listen standing on the bridge, looking down into the Corrib.
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