THE HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND COUNTY OF THE TOWN OF Galway, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME, Embellished with several Engravings. TO WHICH IS ADDED, A COPIOUS APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE PRINCIPAL CHARTERS AND OTHER ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS. BY JAMES HARDIMAN, Esq. MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY AND SUB-COMMISSIONER ON THE PUBLIC REcords. -Historiæ placeant nostrates. DUBLIN: PRINTED BY W. FOLDS AND SONS, 38, GT. STRAND-STREET. 1820. Gough Ireland Add: ΤΟ JAMES DALY, Esq. OF DUNSANDLE, ONE OF THE REPRESENTATIVES IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE COUNTY OF GALWAY SIR, THE measures now in progress, under your sanction, to improve the town of Galway and promote the convenience of its inhabitants, afford me much additional pleasure in dedicating to you a Work, undertaken with a hope of benefiting that ancient and respectable town, with whose prosperity your interest is so intimately connected. Independently of this consideration, there were others which would have equally induced me to come to the same determination. I felt that I should have to address the descendant of a family to which Galway had been indebted for emancipation from the long-borne thraldom of former corporation influence, an individual who, with conscious pride, could look back on a line of ancestry, many of them eminently conspicuous in the history of their country. Whose venerable forefather, DENIS DAly, Esq. (the counsellor and stedfast friend of the ill-fated James II.) suggested those measures which would have led to the general pacification of this part of the kingdom, and, perhaps, have prevented the sanguinary battle of Aughrim, unless frustrated by the prevalence of that party which led Ireland into danger, and then abandoned her to her fate. Whose paternal grandfather, JAMES DALY, Esq. first over |