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This aerial photograph shows the main road into and out of town – An Bóthar Mór – c1950. You can see the end of the terraces, the hat factory and to the right, Grealishtown.

One hundred and eighty years ago, the Sisters of Mercy came to Galway for the first time, to a house in Lombard Street, to devote themselves to works of mercy among the poor. The great Catherine McAuley was one of the first three nuns to come here, the others being Mother M Teresa White and Mother N Catherine Leahy.