Tribes of Galway (Irish: Treibheanna na Gaillimhe) were 14 merchant families who dominated the political, commercial and social life of the city of Galway...
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group of merchant families, the Tribes of Galway, the city grew into a trading port. Following a period of decline, as of the 21st century, Galway is a...
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other sports teams from the county, Galway United are nicknamed "The Tribesmen", after the 14 "tribes" of Galway, the merchant families that established...
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Martyn (surname) (category Political families of Ireland)
Dillwyn (1997). The Lords of Cemais. Haverfordwest: Cemais Publications. ISBN 0-9531961-0-0. Martyn, Adrian (2001). The Tribes of Galway. OCLC 48208254.*Phillips...
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The office of Mayor of Galway is an honorific title used by the Cathaoirleach of Galway City Council. The council has jurisdiction throughout its administrative...
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County Galway (/ˈɡɔːlweɪ/ GAWL-way; Irish: Contae na Gaillimhe) is a county in Ireland. It is in the Northern and Western Region, taking up the south of the...
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1396. Governed by a clique of English-oriented merchant families, who eventually became known as The Tribes of Galway, Galway became to a large degree culturally...
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Peirce Lynch (category Mayors of Galway)
first Mayor of Galway. The son of John Lynch fitz Edmond, as well as a brother of Dominick Dubh Lynch, and a member of one of The Tribes of Galway, Peirce...
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was a Galway lawyer and member of the Catholic Confederates of Ireland. He was of the senior line of the Martyn family, one of the Tribes of Galway. He...
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Ó Lorcáin (category Surnames of Irish origin)
ollamhs to the Ó Madadhan. At least one member of the family became a clerk for the Tribes of Galway by c. 1500. M1490.15 ... Thomas O'Lorcan, intended...
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Claddagh ring (category Culture in Galway (city))
originated in Claddagh, County Galway. Its modern form was first produced in the 17th century. The Claddagh ring belongs to a group of European finger rings called...
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St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church (redirect from Wardenship of Galway)
reprinted The Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, Galway, Galway 1962. Adrian Martyn, The Tribes of Galway 1124-1642, Galway 2016. Wikimedia Commons has media...
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James "Spanish" Blake (category People from County Galway)
after 1560, died 20 February 1630. A member of one of The Tribes of Galway, Blake was the second son of Walter Blake (died 1575) and Juliana Browne....
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-9.0417 Galway Belfast Dublin The siege of Galway took place from August 1651 to 12 May 1652 during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. Galway was the...
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(TV series), 2024 American series set in Ireland One of the fourteen Tribes of Galway Botkin, a surname Odds bodkins (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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Connacht (redirect from Province of Connaught)
themselves under charter of the king of England. Its merchant families, The Tribes of Galway, traded not only with the lordships around them and in Ireland, but...
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one of several species of carnivorous mammal Martian Martine (disambiguation) Marton (disambiguation) Martyn (surname), one of the fourteen Tribes of Galway...
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Bourgeois of Brussels Bourgeois of Paris Bourgeoisie of Geneva Hanseaten Tribes of Galway Deboeck, Guido J. (2007). Flemish DNA & Ancestry: History of Three...
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Spanish Arch (redirect from The Long Walk (Galway))
Retrieved 16 May 2008. History of Galway, James Hardiman, 1820 Old Galway, Maureen Donovan O'Sullivan, 1942 The Tribes of Galway 1124-1642, Adrian Martyn,...
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Lynch (surname) (category Surnames of Irish origin)
became one of the Tribes of Galway. It is this wealthy landowning line that was elevated to the baronetage as the Lynch baronets of Galway. The family...
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of the Tribes of Galway. His father John emigrated in 1691 from Galway, Ireland to Bordeaux, inherited an estate in the village of Bages through his...
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Galway Castle was a castle located in Galway, County Galway, Ireland. Built in 1124, by the King of Connacht, Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair, known as Caislen...
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Martyn (surname), one of the Tribes of Galway and others Martyn (given name) Martin (disambiguation) Marten (disambiguation) Martin of Tours All pages with...
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The University of Galway (Irish: Ollscoil na Gaillimhe) is a public research university located in the city of Galway, Ireland. The university was founded...
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name Deane Dean (surname) Dean (disambiguation) Tribes of Galway, which includes Deane as one of the Tribes This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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Peter Martyn (soldier) (category Hungarian people of Irish descent)
Peter Martyn (1772–1827) was an Irish soldier. He was a member of one of the Tribes of Galway. He was born in Castlebar, County Mayo in 1772. He joined the...
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corruption of "Ap Lake", meaning "Son of Lake". Blake was the name of one of the 14 Tribes of Galway in Ireland. These Blakes were descendants of Richard...
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Monivea (category Towns and villages in County Galway)
of the ffrench (or Ffrench) family, who had been landholders in Galway since the early Norman era, and were one of the Norman-Gaelic tribes of Galway...
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Lynch-Blosse baronets (category Baronetcies in the Baronetage of Ireland)
member of an Anglo-Norman family and one of the merchant Tribes of Galway. Both he and the second Baronet represented County Galway in the Irish House of Commons...
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Tomás Bobhdacing (category People from County Galway)
Bobhdacing, founder of the Bodkin family of The Tribes of Galway, fl. c. 1300. Bobhdacing was a descendant of Maurice FitzGerald, Lord of Lanstephan (c. 1100...
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