Guides to Tuam
15 articles, each about one thing people ask: a station, a square, a beach, a festival, a castle. Every one is written from a named source in this site’s own words, and every place it mentions is pinned on the model.
The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Roman Catholic cathedral of the Archdiocese of Tuam, which covers half of…
Tuam Stadium, St Jarlath's Park, is one of the main grounds of Galway's footballers: blessed and opened by Archbishop Walsh on 21 May 1950 with…
Tuam railway station opened in 1860 on the Waterford, Limerick and Western line from Limerick to Sligo, the only station between Athenry and…
The Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, St Mary's, ran in Tuam from 1925 to 1961 in the old workhouse of 1846, for Galway County Council: historian…
Ballyglunin railway station near Tuam, opened in 1860 by the Waterford, Limerick and Western Railway on the Limerick to Claremorris line, is the…
The N17 begins at the Kilmore Roundabout in Tuam and runs 95 km north through Milltown, Claremorris, Knock and Tubbercurry to Collooney in Sligo,…
St Jarlath's College, Coláiste Iarfhlatha, was founded in Tuam in 1800 by Archbishop Edward Dillon to prepare boys for Maynooth, beginning in two…
North Galway is football country: Tuam Stars, formed in 1887 as a soccer club and playing Gaelic football from St Patrick's Day 1889; Dunmore…
St Mary's, Ard-Eaglais Mhuire, is the Church of Ireland cathedral in Tuam, seat of the Archdiocese of Tuam from the 12th century to 1839 both…
Tom Murphy, born in Tuam on 23 February 1935, the youngest of ten children whose elder siblings emigrated to Birmingham one by one, and died on 15…
The Saw Doctors, formed in Tuam in 1986 by Leo Moran of the reggae band Too Much for the White Man and Davy Carton of the punk band Blaze X,…
Catherine Corless, born Farrell in Tuam in 1954, a former factory secretary and full-time mother of four who took an evening course in local…
Two Tuam Stars men born eleven days apart in December 1928 made Galway football in the 1950s: Seán Purcell, the Master, a Hogan Cup winner with St…
Pádraic Joyce, born 1 April 1977, won a Hogan Cup with St Jarlath's in 1994, a Sigerson Cup with IT Tralee in 1997, two All-Ireland senior…
Iarlaithe mac Loga, St Jarlath, the sixth-century priest and scholar of the Conmhaicne who founded the monastic school of Tuam and is patron of…