A Conversation for Galway City, County Galway, Ireland
Galway, Irland
Researcher 192033 Started conversation Apr 2, 2002
The information about Galway is nearly perfect - I just missed a very important bit of shared knowledge I would like to supplement herewith:
The first living European creature reaching the Americas (after the Vikings etc.) was not Columbus or one of his men, it was a dog from the harbour of Galway. The poor creature half mad after the journey smelled land and fresh water, fresh food as well, probably, and jumped over board and swam to the beach. Whoever the first 2-leged creature was, the glory of having been the first was to this nameless harbour-dog. (It was custom to take dogs and cats along to keep the rats and mice down in number.)
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