Search Results for 'Clonfert'
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Loughrea to go medieval this weekend
Loughrea will host a feast of free events this weekend as part of the Loughrea Medieval Festival, taking place from Friday, August 25 to Sunday, August 27.
Colourful and packed Loughrea Medieval Festival this weekend
Loughrea medieval festival 2022 takes place in the medieval town of Loughrea from tomorrow Friday August 26 to Sunday August 28.
Funding for drainage works in Clonfert
A total of €90,000 in funding has been approved for the Galway County Council to begin works opening and cleaning the open drain network at Clonfert, near Ballinasloe.
What the so called ‘empty frame’ may have looked like...
Last month Galway Diary explored the sham legend that grew around the so-called ‘Empty frame’ on the wall of the Lynch’s Chapel, or Lady’s chapel, in the historic St Nicholas’ Collegiate church. The late Canon George Quinn pronounced that this was the very frame in which the Bishop of Clonfert, Walter Lynch’s sacred icon of the Madonna and Child once hung, before he was forced to flee just before the arrival of Cromwell’s soldiers in April 1652.
Public lecture on Clonfert monastery
The history of Clonfert, from its foundation as a monastic site in the sixth century to its decline in the 17th century, will be the subject of a public lecture in Galway.
