Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Galway. You may be able to find further references to Galway in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Galway	county town of Galway, parliamentary borough, seaport, township, and county of itself	Bartholomew
GALWAY	a sea-port, borough, and market-town, and a county of itself	Lewis:Ireland

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Galway within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
George Head	Galway	5
George Head	Roscommon to Galway	2
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	1
John Wesley	1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer