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This first floor spacious apartment at No 7 Spanish Parade is located on the Long Walk, just beside the famous Spanish Arch in a quiet and tranquil setting yet in the heart of Galway city centre.

Leading Galway estate agent DNG Maxwell Heaslip & Leonard brings to the market a wonderful three bedroom townhouse, located on the famous Long Walk in the centre of Galway city. Comprising approximately 900sq ft of living accommodation, No 16 The Long Walk, Spanish Arch, offers views of Nimmo’s Pier and The Claddagh from each room in the house.

The Spanish Arch was originally an extension of the city walls from Martin’s Tower to the banks of the river. It was built in 1584 as a measure to protect the city’s quays. It was known as Ceann an Bhalla or ‘The Head of the Wall’. In the 18th century, Long Walk was built by the Eyre family as an extension to the quays, and a breakwater to construct a mud berth. A number of arches were constructed to allow access from the town to the new quay but some of these were wrecked by a tsunami which occurred after the 1755 earthquake in Lisbon.

Mullery Auctioneers has been favoured with instructions to sell a prime city centre development opportunity and adjacent restaurant investment at Quay Street and Quay Lane, in what can only be described as a rare jewel in property terms, so infrequently do opportunities of acquiring properties in this location arise.

Sherry FitzGerald welcomes No 7 Glor na Mara, New Dock Street, Galway, to the market for sale by private treaty. No 7 is an attractive two bedroom apartment close to Galway city centre.

GALWAY ARTIST Paul James Kearney will provide his own particular view of Galway city in his new exhibition, Another View, which opens in the Renzo Café & Gallery, Eyre Street, this evening at 8pm.

From award winning potters to newly qualified ceramicists, some of the variety and virtuosity of contemporary Irish studio pottery will be on display for two days in Galway during the first week of the Arts Festival.

O'Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers bring to the market a wonderful two bedroom first floor apartment located in the heart of Galway city's dockland area. The development at Barr Toaide was built by TBD Developers in 2004 and is situated between Merchants Road and The Docks. 

One of the mysteries of Galway is that curious phrase under the west facing clock on the Galway Camera Shop on William  Street, which says: Dublin Time. The fact that now the clock shows ordinary winter time only adds to the mystery. But not so long ago Galwegians, delighting in the longer days of sunlight than in the east of the country, and displaying an oddity that makes living in Galway a pleasure, set their clocks a full eleven and an half minutes behind Dublin. However, trains had to run to a standardised timetable otherwise transport chaos would ensue. The timetable was set at Dublin time (linked, like the rest of the civilised world, to Greenwich Mean Time), so  as Galwegians hurried to the station they could glance at the clock, and probably have to put on speed (perhaps Galway Time explains why most meetings here are usually 11 minutes late?).

Galway is set to become a ‘floral city’ under a new partnership between Salthill and city businesses and the Galway City Council.