Claddagh

Today Claddagh is a neighbourhood of the town of Galway, however, some years ago it was another village. Fishermen used to live there and it is likely that this village was previous to the foundation of Galway. In the Middle Ages the inhabitants of Claddagh were all Irish.

They lived in a kind of apartheid, and they only could gain access to Galway in order to trade. They were not allowed to settle there. They governed themselves and they chose their king who was called Admiral of the Bay of Galway. The last sovereign was Eoin Concannon and he died in 1954, when he was 90 years old. All the houses of the village were declared unhealthy, and they were demolished.