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  St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Collegiate Church of St Nicholas in the centre of Galway, Ireland was founded in 1320 and was dedicated, like many other European churches in seaports, to Saint Nicholas of Myra, the patron saint of seafarers.
The granting of collegiate status in 1484 required that the City of Galway, and some surrounding parishes, be severed from the Archdiocese of Tuam.
The Anglican Wardenship was discontinued by the Church of Ireland and replaced by the parish of Galway under the care of a rector while the Roman Catholic Wadenship was discontinued by the Holy See and the city and a large area of its hinterland was reconstituted as the Diocese of Galway.
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 Galway City
The town of Galway is built on both sides of, and on two islands in, this river; the main town is situated wholly on the eastern side.
On the invasion of the English in 1180, Galway was again put in a state of defence by the O'Flaherties, from whom Richard De Burgho took it in 1232; and in 1270 the walling and fortification of the town were undertaken by the conquerors.
The mayor of Galway is ex officio admiral of the coasts of Galway bay as far as the isles of Arran.
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 wardenship_of_galway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Wardenship of Galway instituted by the archbishop of Tuam
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Galway Bay Galway Bay, inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, 30 mi (48 km) long, W Republic of Ireland, in counties Galway and Clare.
Aughrim Aughrim or Aghrimôg´rĬm, ôkh-, village, Co. Galway, W central Republic of Ireland.
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 St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is located in downtown Galway in the Republic of Ireland and was founded in 1320, dedicated (like many other European churches in seaports) to Saint Nicholas of Myra, the patron saint of seafarers.
The church was raised to the status of a collegiate church by letters under the seal of Donatus O'Murray, the Archbishop of Tuam, on September 28, 1484, the same year in which Galway was granted a Royal Charter and given mayoral status.
The granting of collegiate status was confirmed on September 8, 1485, by a papal bull issued by Pope Innocent VIII (Super Dominicum Gregem).
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Tuam
The mainland portion of the archdiocese is divided by a chain of lakes extending from the city of Galway to the Pontoon, near Foxford, Mayo.
For the next 250 years a prolonged and unseemly conflict was carried on between the archbishops and abbots, the former declaring that Annahdown had been reduced by the pope and the king to the rank of a parish church, whilst the abbots stoutly maintained their independence.
In 1484 the wardenship of Galway was established, and all the parishes on the south and west around the lake were placed under the warden's quasi-episcopal jurisdiction, Tuam still retaining eight parishes to the east of the lake.
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 Journal of the Galway Archæological and Historical Society
Knox, H.T.: Caher and rath caves of Galway and Meath.
Martyn, G.V.: Oliver Martyn and the Tribes of Galway, 37-41.
Curtis, Edmund: The pardon of Henry Blake of Galway in 1395, 186-189.
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 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
Galway received a municipal charter from the crown in December 1484.
Galway citizens went against their garrison and supported the confederate side in 1642.
In more recent years, the resignation of Eamon Casey as Bishop of Galway in "scandalous circumstances" in 1992 came to be seen as pivotal in the Catholic Church's loss of influence of the nation of Ireland.
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 Wardenship of Galway.html - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Galway and Kilmacduagh
In this district was the town of Galway.
In the ninth century it was destroyed by the Danes; subsequently it was rebuilt and protected by a strong castle; in the twelfth century again destroyed by the King of Munster; and towards the end of that century wrested from the O'Flahertys by the powerful Anglo-Norman family of De Burgo.
But the Galway men, regarding the surrounding people as little better than savages, were reluctant to be associated with them, and in 1484 obtained from the Archbishop of Tuam exemption from his jurisdiction.
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The inhabitants of Galway, having thus succeeded, to the fullest extent of their wishes, in getting rid of an exterior, and establishing a domestic, nomination of the clergy, now began to direct their thoughts towards the endowment of the college and the improvement of the church.
John Vesey, the then archbishop, having prevailed on his clergy to drop their petition, undertook to obtain from government a grant in commendam of the wardenship of Galway after the death of Warden Vaughan, who was then considerably advanced in years, upon which the quarta pars was to be restored.
Nicholas, in Galway, we, the R.C. mayor At the time appointed the electors assemble at bailiffs and peers of the R.C. corporation of the collegiate chapel, and the business is opened lay-patrons of the said R.C. collegiate church by the sheriffs.
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 Wardenship of Galway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Collegiate Church of St Nicholas in the centre of Galway, Ireland was founded in 1320 and was dedicated, like many other European churches inseaports, to Saint Nicholas of Myra, the patron saint of seafarers.
The granting of collegiate status in 1484 required that the City of Galway, and some surrounding parishes, be severed fromthe Archdiocese of Tuam.
The Anglican Wardenship wasdiscontinued by the Church of Ireland and replaced by the parishof Galway under the care of a rector while the Roman Catholic Wadenship wasdiscontinued by the Holy See and the city and a large area of its hinterland wasreconstituted as the Diocese of Galway.
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 St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Bishop of Tuam, Rt Rev Richard Henderson, prohibited any further services of this kind and Towers agreed to abide by this ruling.
Monuments of St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church, Galway: A historical, genealogical, and archaeological record
The Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, Galway: A study of the structure
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 Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
wardenship be ended and a normal diocesan structure be established.
was consecrated Bishop of Galway in Tuam Cathedral by Archbishop McHale.
In 1883, Thomas Carr, was appointed Bishop, the first to be appointed with the title "Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh and apostolic administrator of Kilfinora"
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 Local History of Claregalway, Co.Galway, Éire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Petition of Honor Higgins, widow, to the warden complaining of Rev. Malachy Mannin, who possessed himself of ground she ought to have.’ The tradition about him in the parish was that he had a strong personality, although the above extract does not show him in a favourable light.
The Canon who had been unwell for some eighteen months prior to his death, as a result of an accident when he was knocked down by a lorry while returning from the funeral of a parishioner, became “eccentric” to say the least.
On one occasion while travelling from Galway he is reported to have been so abusive to a passenger that the conductor was obliged to stop the bus.
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 Ballinacourty Civil Parish, Galway, Ireland, Lewis, 1837 description ©Jane Lyons
This parish is situated on the estern shore of the bay of Galway, and on the road from Oranmore to an inlet of the bay forming the approach to Claren-Bridge.
The living consists of a rectory and a perpetual curacy, in the diocese of Tuam; the former is part of the union of St. Nicholas and corps of the wardenship of Galway; and the latter is one of four which constitute the union of Kilcummin.
In the R.C. divisions the parish is in the diocese of Galway, and forms part of the union or district of Oranmore; the chapel is a large thatched building, capable of accommodating 1000 persons.
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 Days And Nights at Garavans
Not only did he travel, but he kept careful journals in which he recorded his impressions of the people he met, the places he visited, the stories he heard, and comments on everything from the weather to the state of the roads.
They have a large Church adjoining it, the Lynches have a Chapel in which they bury...To the North of the town are the remains of a Franciscan Convent, and the face of an altar or tomb with reliefs of Saints on it.
When this fact come to his fathers Knowledge, the son was tryed by the father and condemned, who sat on the bench, and intercession being made for him; he bid the persons come to him in the afternoon, and when they return'd they saw the son hanging out of the Chamber window.
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 The Tribes and the Wardenship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
That as no more than twenty Gentlemen shall be admitted to the freedom of this Corporation; and the freedom shall not descend to their posterity.
That no person whatsoever shall be admitted to the freedom of this Corporation without the appearance of twenty-one of the Galway names, inclusive of the Officers of the Corporation.
For the united citizens of Galway determined to promote liberality of sentiment, unity and peace, on real Christian principles, justice and equity.
www.galwaylibrary.ie /history/chapter22.html   (390 words)

  
 Tribes of Galway Definition / Tribes of Galway Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Tribes of Galway were fourteen merchant families who dominated the political commercial and social life in the town of Galway between the 13th and 16th centuries.
Members of this Irish clan were very active in city government, and the ecclesiastical wardenship of County Galway.
Sir Richard Blake was the chairman or speaker of the Assembly of Confederate Catholics.
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 Kilcummin Civil Parish, Galway, Ireland, Lewis, 1837 description ©Jane Lyons
KILCUMMIN, a parish, in the barony of MOYCULLIN, county of GALWAY and province of CONNAUGHT, containing, with the post-town of Oughterard, 9848 inhabitants.
The tithes amount to £140, of which £70 is payable to the impropriator, £35 to the warden of Galway, and £35 to the perpetual curate.
The town of Galway and a large portion of the adjoining country are supplied with turf from the district that stretches along the headlands of Kilkerrin and Greatman's bays ; and the inhabitants of the interior, through the medium of Lough Corrib, are hence supplied with sea-sand and sea-weed for manure.
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 Claremorris Co Dean Galway Ireland Tuam, claremorris co dean galway ireland tuam resources
There are several smaller regional airports in the Republic (Galway Airport, Kerry Airport, Knock Airport, Sligo Airport, Waterford Airport) that mostly limit their services to Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Born in Tuam, County Galway, Killian was baptised at the...
Galway city and the whole western region from Claremorris right down to Tuam...
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 Caroline's Web Page
Dominick's son, Stephen Lynch, was in turn responsible for obtaining from Pope Innocent VIII the Bull which established that unique ecclesiastical institution, the Wardenship of Galway.
The Galway family also produced a number of distinguished ecclesiastics, the most famous of whom were Rev. John Lynch (1599-1673), the author of Cambrensis Eversus: the centenarian Archbishop of Tuam, Most Rev. James Lynch, D.D. (1611-1676), the author of many works in Spanish ; and Rev. Dominic Lynch (d.
It was a branch of this family that migrated to Galway in the early fifteenth century.
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 Blake the Remembrancer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
On the exchange of militia, Blake went to England where he raised the reputation of the Galway regiment to the highest of any militia regiment, Irish or English.
In Ireland, however, save by some members of the bar, and by his County Galway friends, he was unknown, so that it was quite a sensation when towards the end of 1821 the approaching arrival of the Marquess of Wellesley as Lord Lieutenant with his friend and counsel, Mr.
1833 The wardenship of Galway was in the patronage of the Bishop of Tuam.
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 "Towards the Goal..." History of the Archdiocese
In 1485, when the Wardenship of Galway was created, Annaghdown was formally united with Tuam by Papal decree, and some of its parishes, Claregalway, Moycullen and Shrule, were formally attached to the new wardenship.
Shrule parish, now part of Galway diocese, is nestled in the Tuam geographical area in the east of Lough Corrib.
This situation may be explained by a number of factors: Galway's late emergence as a diocese in 1831; the unusual topography of islands, inlets and lakes; and the late population settlements on Connemara.
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 Journal of the Galway Archaeological & Historical Society ©Jane Lyons
By H. A Relic of the Fortifications of Galway.
The Pardon of Henry Blake of Galway in 1395
Purchasers of Land in Counties Galway and Mayo in the Encumbered Estate Courts, 1849-1958.
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 Wardenship of Galway instituted by the archbishop of Tuam
Galway anciently belonged to the diocese of Annaghdown, which was united, in 1324, to the arch-diocese of Tuam; and since that union it was governed by vicars, nominated by that See.
In the year 1484, the inhabitants prevailed on Donat O'Murray, then archbishop of Tuam, to release the town from his jurisdiction, and to erect the church of St Nicholas into a collegiate, to be governed by a warden and vicars, who were to be presented and solely elected by the inhabitants of the town.
This petition was graciously received by the Pope Innocent VIII, who granted a bull of confirmation, according to the prayer of the petitioners.
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 House of Lords Journal Volume 63: 11 October 1831 | British History Online
Galway Elective Franchise, Petition from New Town Smith for Extension of.
Galway Franchise Bill, Petition from Tholsel in favor of, andc.
Galway Elective Franchise, Petitions for Extension of: Clare,
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 Healy rare books ireland Irish old antiquarian rare buy swift heaney book collectors beckett joyce james   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Nationalist lecturer, popularly known as 'Father Tom Burke', was a native of Galway, the son of a baker.
Former home of the great U.S. Film Producer John Huston who once stated that he was forced to sell St. Clerans because "He could no longer afford to keep it in the style that his friends had become accustomed to".
The story of the Church in Galway from 1484 to 1831.
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