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DNG Maxwell, Heaslip & Leonard is launching this outstanding four bedroom detached Dangan residence to the market. No 72 Tudor Lawn is ideally located on the immediate outskirts of Galway city, adjacent to Bushypark National School and within a short walk of Dangan Sports Ground, the IDA Business Park and the grounds of UHG.

The storied Cong to Galway Race, renowned as the oldest inland sailing competition in Europe (1882), is set to make its annual return this Saturday August 31, starting from the picturesque Lisloughrey Pier near Ashford Castle.

Lakeview Hill has become firmly established as one of Galway’s premier residential locations. Located in the highly sought-after Bushypark area of Galway city, the Lakeview Hill estate offers all that one could possibly require.

Cllr Frank Fahy’s proposal for the restoration of Menlo Castle has been met with resounding success as Galway City Council announces the receipt of €85,000 in heritage funding for this historic project.

Emergency services responded to four separate riverside incidents in Galway’s busy city centre last weekend.

Galway to benefit from Summer of Play initiative, says O’Reilly

In the early hours of July 26 1910 Menlo Castle, on the bank of the river Corrib, was totally gutted by a fire. Sir Valentine and Lady Blake’s daughter, Ellen, was lost in the flames. The cook Delia Early, who lived on the attic floor, jumped to her death. Delia shared a room with housemaid Anne Browne, who waited until her clothes were in flames, before jumping. She landed on a pile of hay placed by other household staff to break her fall. Severely injured and burnt, Anne was driven on an open truck, slowly into the Galway Infirmary, lying on a door to ease her movement and pain. Local farmers gave her milk to drink to try to cool her down.

I have mentioned recently Sir William Wilde’s energetic guide to Lough Corrib - Its shores and Islands (published 1867), and his excitement as he and his family steamed across Ireland from Dublin, to begin their long summer holiday at their holiday home, Moytura Lodge, Cong, at the very north of the lake. From steam train to the Eglinton steamer, which left Galway every day to service the villages on the lakeshore, including Cong, the Wildes steamed passed the ancient home of the Blakes at Menlough (Menlo)* located just before the river enters the great lake.