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Secret Stones of Annaghdown The stone walls and ruins of east Galway are famous all over the world. They record the graft and skill of former generations who knew from the feel and heft of a stone precisely how to

St. Cathaldus’ Church, Corrandrum By Joe McDermott At the eastern end of the parish of Annaghdown, in the townland of Corrandrum a short distance from the Tuam road, across from the school lies an unobtrusive little known monument. It is

This is a list of resources for use in researching a townland, as part of our Townlands Project. List of townland volunteers: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SxtFyKNhJx3w8Jf8Ong3sqT_h2kXJpK0D7UalgvAzKc/edit?usp=sharing Townlands Template If you have a Google account, the easiest way to compile and submit your townland research

Major P. Kirwan’s Property, County of Galway TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMAN. SIR — Some time since I read in the Freeman’s Journal certain speeches and reports, which were well calculated to prejudice the public mind against my father,

By Johnny Burke In the early 1920s, with the battle for an independent Irish Republic at full pace, when IRA Volunteers were taking the fight to the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries, the land question was still a major issue