60%Lynch's Window
Market Street , , Galway
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Where?
Located just off Shop Street
What?
Famous Landmark
Anything else you need to know?
A landmark that is steeped in the history of Galway city, it is said that this is the window where the Mayor of Galway hung his own son after he had killed a visiting Spaniard, in order ti uphold the law of the land.
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As legend has it, this window marks the spot where the Mayor of Galway hung his son in the early 16th century. He did so after his son murdered a visiting Spaniard and it is said that this was done to show that the enforcement of the law was more important than that of the bonds of family.
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by Emmet
– posted on May 9, 2008
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