Haunted Galway: Ghosts Beneath the Stone

Galway is a city built in layers, stone upon stone, story upon story. Beneath the cobbles and canal walls, behind the painted shopfronts and river bridges, the past still moves quietly. The dead of wars, shipwrecks, famines, and lost loves have never quite gone. Their breath is in the fog, their reflection in the Corrib, their whispers in the rain against old glass. This walking tour traces their presence through fifteen places that hold the city’s oldest secrets: from medieval gallows to vanished abbeys, from jealous lovers to restless soldiers, from drowned mayors to creatures said to stir in the dark beneath the canal. Each stop brings you closer to the stories Galway keeps underfoot, true tales, half-truths, and legends that refuse to die. Listen closely. You might find that in Galway, history never really stays buried.