DomainArticle in Book
Title"The Galway tribes as landowners and gentry"
Title Of BookMoran, Gerard (ed.), Galway : history & society : interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county (Dublin: Geography Publications, 1996)
AuthorMelvin, Patrick
Publication Date1996
Start-End Page319 — 374
Number Of Pages56 p.
Era Covered1600 — 1878
LanguageEnglish
Subject Classification
PlaceCounty Galway
CountryIreland
NotesThe families known as the Galway tribes invested their merchant wealth in landed property-some, such as the Blakes, as early as 1278. Concerns estates and families of Athy, Blake, Bodkin, Browne, Deane, French, D'Arcy, Joyce, Kirwan, Lynch, Martin, Morris, and Skerrett.
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