Tuam, a town of County Galway, 130 miles NW. of Dublin by rail, on a branch of the Clare. Pop. 3567—mostly Catholics. It is the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishop and of an Anglican bishop. The (modern) Catholic cathedral is very large; the Anglican one, mostly rebuilt just prior to 1878, contains a chancel dating from 1150.
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