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The extreme winter conditions of 1846/47 exacerbated the mounting crisis that the Great Famine had already created. The number of deaths from hunger in Galway town averaged between 25 and 30 a week. As well as the main workhouse on Newcastle Road (now the University College Hospital) auxiliary workhouses had opened at Barna, Newtownsmyth, Merchants Road, St Helen Street, and in Dangan. Six soup kitchens operated throughout the town feeding some 7,000 people a day and more as newcomers streamed in from rural districts. On one bitterly cold morning two children were found frozen to death on High Street. Another child dead nearby.

Mullery Auctioneers has brought to the market a three-bedroom semi-detached residence boasting a stunning location on University Road overlooking the university grounds.

The latest survey by the Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) alliance shows Galway city as ‘moderately littered’, losing its Clean to European Norms status, and in 33rd position in the ranking of 40 towns and cities nationwide.

Sherry FitzGerald is welcoming No 1 Leas na hAbhainn, Newcastle, Galway, to the market for sale by private treaty. Leas na hAbhann comprises a compact modern block of three own-door individual apartments, located just off Upper Newcastle, directly opposite the grounds of the new engineering facility at NUIG and within easy access of University College Hospital. Both institutions are the largest in Galway city. The block has the added advantage of being situated in a quiet cul-de-sac.