Loughrea

Loughrea is a town in County Galway, Ireland. The town lies to the north of a range of wooded hills, the Slieve Aughty Mountains, and the lake from which it takes its call. The city is likewise famous for its cathedral which dominates the metropolis's skyline. The city has increased in population inside the past due 20th and early 21st centuries. Although the city additionally serves as a commuter city for the metropolis of Galway, it keeps its vibrancy as an impartial marketplace city.

The town is located within a place that became traditionally called Tricha Maenmaige. This vicinity become below the manager of Ui Fhiachrach Fionn, and later via the Ui Maine. The area includes many examples of Gaelic and Early Christian settlements. The metropolis becomes founded in 1236 by Richard de Burgo, an Anglo Norman knight who constructed a citadel alongside an historic path among the River Shannon and the west coast. Today the remains of the medieval metropolis wall, medieval priory, moat and a metropolis gate are all still to be visible. The De Burgo family adopted Irish names and customs and assumed the function of chieftains inside the following centuries until 1543 while Ulick Bourck, alias Mac William, surrendered his lands to Henry VIII, receiving it back to keep, by way of English custom, along with his new title, the Earl of Clanricarde.