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Markets and fairs were where town met country years ago, when rural people from the hinterland came into town with their produce and sold it on the streets to the townspeople who needed it. So the city hosted cattle fairs, sheep fairs, horse fairs, hiring fairs, vegetable markets, hay markets, fish markets, sock markets, fowl markets, egg and butter markets. When the country people sold their produce, they would often spend money on necessities they could not produce at home such as flour, tea or sugar. If they did not sell, they had to return home, usually by shank’s mare, with whatever they had to sell, whatever the weather.

Located in the sought-after suburb of Roscam, No 8 Ros Caoin emerges as an appealing proposition in today’s competitive housing market. This elegant four bedroom end-of-terrace residence is being offered to the open market by DNG Maxwell Heaslip & Leonard and carries asking price of €440,000 — a figure that reflects both quality and opportunity for potential homeowners in an area growing in popularity all the time.

The Saturday Market at St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church is a Galway tradition that goes back some 800 years. It was a fruit and vegetable market which expanded greatly at this time of the year when the farmers brought in large numbers of turkeys and geese for sale.

Christmas shopping in Galway got a whole lot more local last weekend as the Tiny Traders Christmas Market opened in Edward Square.

Galway City centre is due to get even more Christmassy this weekend as Tiny Traders returns to open their annual Christmas market in Edward Square tomorrow.

In 1902, the number of fairs listed for Eyre Square was: January 1st; March 20th & 21st; April 14th & 15th; May 30th & 31st; June 20th; July 13th & 14th; August 6th; September 3rd & 4th, 20th & 21st; October 21st; November 2nd (pigs only); and December 8th & 9th. This list gives one an idea of how important and busy the Square was for commerce at the time. These were occasions when the country came to town, when rural people brought in their produce and hoped to convert it into cash.

Every so often a very special house comes to the market that impresses everyone who looks at it. Colleran auctioneers has just placed on the market for sale by private treaty No 74 Gort Gréine, Rahoon, Galway.

In the bustling city of Galway, where the winds from the Atlantic bring a fresh promise of opportunity and growth, finding an ideal property can mark a significant moment for a potential buyer. DNG Maxwell Heaslip & Leonard's latest listing, No 68 Rosan Glas in Rahoon, could very well be that property.

The escalating popularity of the Athlone Christmas Market gives cause for much positivity with regards to the collaborative festive initiative in the years to come, Cllr Frankie Keena, stated this week.

There were a number of aspects to the market in Woodquay in the 19th and early 20th centuries – there was a crane for weighing potatoes at the end of the park (near the toll booth) and it was there many of the farmers who carried their wares downriver used to gather to sell. Other groups would congregate here to sell scollops for thatching houses, ‘flexible sticks’ cut from hazel trees. These were very much in demand in the city area as so many houses were thatched in those days including in Woodquay. Also in that area you would find basket makers who would weave creels, ciseáins, skibs and baskets of many shapes and sizes for sale to the public.