Julia Nolan
Julia Nolan (1611–1701) was a prioress of the Dominican nuns in Galway, Ireland from 1686 to 1701. Family background Nolan was born in the town of Galway, a member of a Gaelic merchant family who settled in the town during the reign of Henry VI and Edward IV. The family's armorial designs on c. 1651 map, alongside Fallone, Lambert, Quinne, Tully and Porte, with this inscription underneath: ''Conscripti cives hi gaudent leg bus urbis/Quos facit et fraters connubialis amor. (Our common rights, these, late enfranchised, prove,/and claim a kindred thro' connubial love)''. Hardiman states that "This family was, formerly, of the first rank and opulence and is still wealthy and respectable." The Nolans were not included among the elite group known as The Tribes of Galway but the family were prosperous enough to marry into the Tribes and purchase property such as Ballinrobe castle. Thomas Nolan of the castle and town of Ballinrobe, Esq., who died 18 June 1628, "was possessed o ...
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