Tribes Free Walking Tour
Our Free Walking Tour is the best way to learn about Galway's history, see the sights and hear all of its myths and legends!
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Location
27 Eyre Square
27 Eyre Square Galway IrelandAgenda
10:55 AM
Meet outside the Skeffington Arms on Eyre Square
11:00 AM
The tour beings in Eyre Square directly across from the Skeffington Arms
11:15 AM
The group moves to The Browne Doorway at the top of Eyre Square
About this event
We're a small, local collection of Tour Guides who try to mix history, legend, conversation, laughter and our own idiosyncrasies into one eventful walk around Galway City.
Galway is a city of arts, theatre, history, and storytelling, and we will show you all these sides of our city. We will walk around the old medieval city and try to tell and debunk as many myths and legends as we can!
The tour will also unfold Irish history from a west coast perspective and explain Galway's place in Ireland. Lastly, the tour is a great way to orient oneself in the city and find out about what else besides the main attractions the city has to offer. In a city of festivals, a local guide can come in quite handy in dispensing this information!
We will visit all the following sites and talk about their place in Galway's past and present:
Eyre Square
Galway's Medieval Walls
Lynch's Castle
Lynch's Window
St. Nicholas's Church
Kirwan's Lane
The Latin Quarter
Quay Street
Blake's Castle
The Spanish Arch.
Frequently asked questions
The Free Walking Tour runs on a donations based model. Instead of paying the guide something at the start of the tour, you simply wait until the end of the tour and you pay the guide whatever you think the tour was worth to you. This means the guide must work hard to give an entertaining tour!
We don't take group bookings of more than 8 people on our Free Walking Tour as they change the experience of other tour participants, particularly if the group are non-native English speakers or groups of school students. Instead for groups, we offer bespoke private tours at a reasonable rate.
The tour will start directly outside the Skeffington Arms on Eyre Square at our Pavement Sign. Use this link to find us on Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/EcC1DYFt2aTjQs8g9