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21 Landmarks at Eyre Square in Galway, Ireland

The English granted Galway their royal city charter in December of 1484. To help celebrate the 500th anniversary, the Quincentennial Fountain was erected in Eyre Square in 1984. The brown sails resemble those on a Galway Hooker, a type of fishing and cargo vessel unique to Galway Bay used from the 18th through 20th centuries. The man in the blue shirt is admiring the Browne Doorway, a remnant of a 1627 mansion owned by Sir Dominick Browne. He was a city mayor and his family was one of the Tribes of Galway.

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Landmarks at Eyre Square in Galway, Ireland

1 Eyre Square, Galway, H91 F882, Ireland

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