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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 831 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ATHENRY  , a

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market
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town of
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county
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Galway,
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Ireland, 14 M. inland (E.) from Galway on the Midland
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Great Western
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main
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line . Pop . (1901) 8J3 . Its name is derived from
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Ath-na-riogh, the
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ford of
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kings; and it
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grew to importance after the Anglo-
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Norman invasion as the first town of the Burgs and Berminghams . The walls were erected in 1211 and the
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castle in 1238, and the remains of both are noteworthy . A Dominican monastery was founded with great magnificence by Myler de Bermingham in 1241, and was repaired by the
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Board of
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Works in 1893 . Of the Franciscan monastery of 1464 little is
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left . The town returned two members to the Irish
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parliament from831 the
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time of
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Richard II. to the
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Union; but it never recovered from the
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wars of the Tudor
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period, culminating in a successful
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siege by Red
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Hugh O'Donnell in 1596 .

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