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Lynch's Window

Market Street, Galway

Where a mayor, legend says, hanged his own son.

In 1493, according to legend, James Lynch FitzStephen, the Mayor of Galway, sentenced his own son Walter to death for murdering a Spanish visitor. When no one would carry out the execution, the mayor hanged his son himself from a window of his house.

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When
1493
Where
53.2740, -9.0520
Group
Gibbets & executions

Visiting

The Lynch memorial window is on Market Street, by St Nicholas' church.

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