Show Me The Money

Saturday is moving day. We drove from Quilty in Co Clare to Westport in Co Mayo. Our one stop was in Galway which is a lively, busy city on a Saturday. We went on a walking tour and that's when Sheelagh learned she is a Norman from France.

The Martin family were one of the 14 Norman families that ran Galway for about 400 years, from the 13th century when they arrived, until the 1650's when Oliver Cromwell arrived. They had very lucrative trade routes with France and Spain which made them and the city very wealthy.

The family home in the centre of the city is now a restaurant but you can still see the medieval 

window. Sheelagh and I had our lunch in the ancestral home. So what we want to know now, Mutti and Dad is, 'Where's the money?'