Stephen Lynch (

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1504–1523) was the 23rd Mayor of Galway, serving from

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. Lynch was a son of

Dominick Dubh Lynch Dominick Dubh Lynch (died 14 August 1508), was the second Mayor of Galway. A member of The Tribes of Galway, Lynch was instrumental in securing the Mayoralty for Galway from Richard III, his brother Peirce becoming the town's first Mayor in Se ...

, Galway's second Mayor, and nephew of

Peirce Lynch Peirce Lynch, alias Peter Lynch, fl. 1485–1486, was the first Mayor of Galway. The son of John Lynch fitz Edmond, as well as a brother of Dominick Dubh Lynch, and a member of one of The Tribes of Galway, Peirce became the first Mayor of Galway ...

, the first Mayor. It was his wife,

Margaret Athy Margaret Athy () was an Irish religious patron. Margaret Athy was a member of The Tribes of Galway and is notable for been one of the few recorded female founders of religious houses in medieval Connacht. In 1508, while her husband Stephen Lynch ...

, who founded the

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monastery of Forthill while he was on a trading voyage. He may have had a second wife, a daughter of Mayor John Bodkin. He had at least seven sons, one of whom, Nicholas, was mayor in 1554 and 1561. Following the sudden death by drowning of Mayor Arthur Lynch, Stephen Lynch was elected to fill out his term. He remained Mayor until September 1510, one of the few early mayors to hold office over successive terms. He continued the work of his father and mother, Anastacia Martin, by extending what would become known as Lynch's Aisle in

St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church The Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas is a medieval church building in Galway, Ireland. It is a collegiate church and the parish church of St. Nicholas Church of Ireland parish, which covers Galway city. It was founded in 1320 and dedicated to ...

. The arms of both Lynch and his wife, along with that of his parents, adorn the upper portion of two windows in the aisle.

References

*''History of Galway'',

James Hardiman James Hardiman (1782–1855), also known as Séamus Ó hArgadáin, was a librarian at Queen's College, Galway. Hardiman is best remembered for his '' History of the Town and County of Galway'' (1820) and '' Irish Minstrelsy'' (1831), one of the f ...

, Galway, 1820 * ''Old Galway'',

Maureen Donovan O'Sullivan Mary Josephine Donovan O'Sullivan was Professor of History at Queens College, Galway (now NUI Galway) from 1914 to 1957. Biography One of ten children, four of whom survived infancy, Donovan was born at Fair Hill Road in Galway on 24 November ...

, 1942 * Henry, William, ''Role of Honour: The Mayors of Galway City 1485–2001'', Galway City Council, 2002. * Martyn, Adrian, ''The Tribes of Galway:1124–1642'', Galway, 2016. Mayors of Galway 16th-century Irish politicians {{Ireland-mayor-stub