Landmarks: Lynch's Castle is still a hang-out for tourist mob

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2002 / May 12 2002: Landmarks: Lynch's Castle is still a hang-out for tourist mob

A tantalising and bloodthirsty tale of olde has brought the tourists flocking to Lynch's Castle in the centre of Shop Street in Galway for more than 150 years. They are drawn by the story of James Lynch FitzStephen, the city's 15th-century lord mayor and chief magistrate — and the man who is said to have inspired the term "lynching". The busloads of visitors are left anguished by the yarn that has all the flavour of a Shakespearean tragedy.

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