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The Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, Galway.

Robert French would have taken the photograph from the two story house on the right. The window frame on the Lynch building can be seen in bottom right www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/22844068380/in/photolist-...

This is one of Galway’s great stories. It is said that in 1493, the mayor and magistrate of Galway James Lynch FitzStephen, hanged his own son from the window of his home. Lynch's son confessed to have murdered a man, a Spanish merchant sailor in the care of the family who had romanced his girlfriend. When no one could be found to carry out the execution, Judge Lynch hanged (or lynched as the practice became known around the world after this event) his son himself, ensuring that justice prevailed, before retiring into seclusion. The memorial is now embedded in stone above a Gothic doorway on Market Street near the graveyard at St. Nicholas’s Church. www.activeme.ie/guides/attractions-2/lynchs-memorial-wind...

Via Chetham's Library with interesting comments and legible inscriptions at large size -

Seems to be a folly www.discoverireland.ie/Arts-Culture-Heritage/peoples-park...

archiseek.com/2014/tower-loyd-kells-co-meath/ says that it was used to view horse racing and the hunt in the nineteenth century

OSI map: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,672217,776484,11,9

Photos in 2012: www.flickr.com/photos/jpbrady/6874935498/ www.flickr.com/photos/jpbrady/7021036793/

Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective, (1724 - 1795) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Taylour,_1st_Earl_of_Bective - erected this thing in 1791 in memory of his father, Sir Thomas Taylor, 2nd Baronet (1686–1757). It's complicated ! - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquess_of_Headfort

We have found a new photo detective! Maeve Burke reports "The woman in the front is my Nanna Elizabeth "Lizzie" Furey Hanafin (niece of the late, great Ted Furey). This was taken when she was 17 and only 2 years before she got married to my Granda who cannot believe how popular this picture has become and how famous his Lizzie is! She passed away 4 years ago but I can tell you she would've loved making the front page of The Irish Times today nevermind being in an exhibition in Dublin! She'd have every copy in the country bought & be up at the exhibition herself! She was a great storyteller, a tough-cookie and well known and respected in Kerry. Her and my Granda bought a chipvan and went all over Ireland to festivals and fairs making friends wherever they went. She told me and my sister lots of stories about when she was travelling with her mother Dolly Furey, who would play the accordion for money and all the hardships they faced, especially during the cold winters in the wagon. We're lucky too that she taught my mother and us the Gammon (which would've been her first language) and passed on many great traveller traditions and crafts like crocheting, sewing, singing, lilting and storytelling. She really was an amazing woman and this is a picture our family will treasure forever. Thank you so much to everyone who commented on this, she would've been over the moon!"

More from the exhibition ‘Photo Detectives’ exhibition reveals striking images of Irish life - Irish Times online

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Wonderful! Meanwhile, in Kildare, the Hill of Allen on the GeoHive OSI 25" map. Much of the Hill has been quarried away since the 25" was surveyed, see Google aerial view.

The Tower still stands, this Flickr pic from 2015:

At the DIA: Date: 1859-1863 Nature: 60 ft. high tower designed by Sir G.G. Aylmer for himself. Edenderry limestone with Ballyknockan granite copings and battlements. Formerly had a glass lantern on top. Names of masons carved on steps. Names include 'Gorry Bros., master masons' on top floor.