A Galway Royal Pavilion

A photograph of Shop Street; this photograph is part of the Lawrence collection at Galway library.

The people of Galway, after the many miseries they had suffered under Cromwell's officers and soldiers, placed great hopes for better times after the Restoration of Charles II. Such was the optimism that the citizens erected for the reception of Charles, who purposed paying them a visit, a palace - the largest structure in Ireland under one roof - extending from the corner of Shop Street opposite Lynch's Castle, generally called the Upper Four Corners, to a house where the Amicable Society met. It is evident that the building was constructed of materials easily put together as it was meant only to be a temporary structure. Annals of Galway quoted by Dutton in his Survey of County Galway.

A photograph of Lynch's Castle, Shop Street, Galway; this photograph is part of the Lawrence collection at Galway library.