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Irish Family Name

Lynch

Ó Loingsigh — “descendant of Loingseach, 'mariner'; a separate Galway line is Norman de Lench”
Provincial colours of Connacht — this name has no clan tartan tradition and no single agreed coat of arms
Irish formÓ Loingsigh
HeartlandGalway city, with Gaelic septs in Cos. Clare, Cavan & Sligo
RegionConnacht

Two quite different families: the Gaelic Ó Loingsigh, and the Norman Lynches who became the most powerful of the Fourteen Tribes of Galway, supplying the city with mayors for generations.

Ancestral seats

  • Lynch's Castle, Galway city

Where to walk in their footsteps

Access, opening hours and admission change. We confirm every site before it goes into an itinerary.

Lynch's Castle, Shop Street, Galway

The finest urban tower house in Ireland; it trades as an AIB bank, so the carved exterior is free to view from the street.

Galway City Museum & the Spanish Arch

Interprets the Tribes of Galway and the medieval walled city the Lynches ran.

Also recorded as

Linchde LenchÓ Loingsigh

Travelling to Lynch country

Cashel Travel has arranged clan gatherings and heritage tours across Scotland and Ireland since the 1990s, including full gatherings for Clan Gordon, Hay, Keith, Lindsay, Hunter, Dunbar, Graham, Sutherland and MacLaren. We research the family history, build the itinerary around it, and arrange access to places that are not normally open to the public.

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