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Is a small post, fair, and market town in the county of Galway, seventy-two miles west by south of Dublin, nine south by east of Ballinasloe, and thirty-five east by south of Galway, in the heart of a fine corn country.
Contiguous to the town stands Eyrecourt castle a magnificent building, the property of the Eyre family and a present received by Colonel Eyre.
The internal part of this castle is worth the stranger's notice; the staircase, in particular, is supposed ot be the finest in Ireland.
John Eyre, a Colonel in Ludlow’s Army, founder of Eyrecourt Castle, ancestor of the Eyres, of Eyrecourt and Eyreville.
In 1768 John Eyre, of Eyrecourt Castle, was raised to the Irish peerage as Baron Eyre of Eyrecourt.
In the church in the town of Eyrecourt are monumental tablets to some of the deceased members of the family, amongst them being one erected by the officers of the 48th Regiment to the memory of their late brother officer, Captain Richard Eyre.
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