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View of Galway Bay - varies from pointing to the hills of the Burren accross Galway Bay, The Claddagh, Nemmo's pier and directly west at the sun going down on Galway Bay.

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:"This article is about the city of Galway in the Republic of Ireland. For other uses of the name, see Galway (disambiguation)." Galway is the only city in the province of Connacht in the Republic of Ireland. The city is located on the west coast of Ireland. In Irish, Galway is also called Cathair na Gaillimhe: "City of Galway". The city takes its name from the "Gaillimh" river (River Corrib) that formed the western boundary of the earliest settlement, which was called "Dún Bhun na Gaillimhe", or the fort at the bottom of the Gaillimh. The word "Gaillimh" means ""stony"" as in ""stony river"". (the mythical and alternative derivations are given in "History of Galway") The city also bears the nickname "City of the Tribes / Cathair na dTreabh", because fourteen They were the merchant families of Athy, Blake, Bodkin, Browne, Darcy, Deane, Font, Ffrench, Joyce, Kirwin, Lynch, Martin, Morris, Skerrett. “Tribes” (merchant families) led the city in its Hiberno-Norman period. The term Tribes ... Read more about Galway on Wikipedia

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