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{{About|the Irish village||Claddagh (disambiguation)}}
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The '''Claddagh''' ({{Irish place name|An Cladach|the seashore}})<ref name=logainm>{{cite web | url = https://www.logainm.ie/en/1418170 | title = An Cladach/Claddagh | work = [[Placenames Database of Ireland]] | access-date = 16 April 2025}}</ref> is an area close to the centre of [[Galway]], Ireland, where the [[River Corrib]] meets [[Galway Bay]]. It was formerly{{when|date=April 2016}} a fishing village, just outside the old city walls. It is just across the river from the [[Spanish Arch]], which was the location of regular fish markets where the locals supplied the city with seafood as recently as the end of the 19th century.

The original village of thatched cottages was razed in the 1930s and replaced by a [[Council housing|council-housing]] scheme.<ref>[http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/6394 The Claddagh — the old and the new], Galway Advertiser, 18 December 2008</ref>

The Claddagh is most famous internationally for the [[Claddagh ring]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.emeraldislejewelry.com/blogs/news/16423517-claddagh-rings-emerald-isle-jewelry |title=Brief History of the Claddagh Ring |publisher=Emerald Isle Jewelry |date=6 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160813042306/https://www.emeraldislejewelry.com/blogs/news/16423517-claddagh-rings-emerald-isle-jewelry |archive-date=13 August 2016}}</ref> which is popular among those of [[Irish diaspora|Irish heritage]] as both a friendship and wedding ring. This traditional design consists of two clasped hands holding a crowned heart, and symbolises love, friendship and loyalty.

The Claddagh area contains a [[National school (Ireland)|national school]], community centre and a [[Catholic church]] as well as the new Claddagh Arts Centre.

==Notable people==
* [[Bobby Beggs]] (1911–1993), Dublin-born Gaelic footballer who later played for [[Galway county football team|Galway]], lived in Claddagh<ref>{{cite news | first=Rory | last=Kerr | url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/fingalindependent/sport/gaa/skerries-stalwart-left-a-lasting-legacy-39324991.html | title=Skerries stalwart left a lasting legacy | date=3 July 2020 | work=Fingal Independent | via=[[Irish Independent]]}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Grady (VC)|Thomas Grady]] (1835–1891), recipient of the [[Victoria Cross]] in the [[Crimean War]]<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dg5dDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT137 |title=The Little Book of Galway |first=Helen |last=Lee |publisher=[[The History Press]] |date=23 July 2018 |page=137 |isbn=9780750989503}}</ref>
* President [[Catherine Connolly]] settled in the Claddagh in married life.

==See also==
* [[King of the Claddagh]]
* [[Claddagh Palace]]
*[[List of public art in Galway city]]
*[[Nicholas Blake (Dominican)]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080306033823/http://www.galwaysalbum.com/Galway%20City/Scenery/10/ Photos of Claddagh Galway]}}
* http://homepage.eircom.net/~claddaghns/oldcladdagh.htm
* https://web.archive.org/web/20130729201342/http://www.kennys.ie/News/OldGalway/05062008-TheGreenGrassintheCladdagh/
* http://www.libraryireland.com/IrishPictures/VII-Claddagh.php
* https://archive.today/20130218003431/http://www.kennys.ie/booktalk/old-galway/the-garra-glas-in-the-claddagh.html

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