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File of pencil and ink maps of Galway by [G.A. Hayes-McCoy], made for teaching or lecturing purposes. All with elevations of buildings, two identified as extracts from Speed's map of Galway, and from the 1651 map of Galway.

Handwritten numbered list and notes by [G.A. Hayes-McCoy] of 17 coats of arms and other carved heraldic features on Galway's buildings, seemingly for a public lecture accompanied by photographic images, adding sketches and notes by [G.A. Hayes-McCoy] on two heraldic features in carved stone; fireplace in Sir Peter French's house, tomb of same French in Franciscan church, both Galway.

File of notes, drawings, maps, by [G.A. Hayes-McCoy], from his research on the Lion's Tower bastion, Galway. With notes on the maps consulted at the National Library, Dublin, sketching relevant sections of these with regard to the bastion. Also including two more elaborately copied maps - one from 1790, one of a property map regarding Thomas Staunton, Esq.

File of notes and correspondence regarding subscriptions for a fund set up by G.A. Hayes-McCoy to preserve the Lion's Tower. Listing subscribers, and including a letter from Fr. L.J. Taheney, Claddagh Church, Galway, praising Hayes-McCoy for fighting a battle for a national treasure "solus in Israel".

File of memoranda, agenda, and circular by G.A. Hayes-McCoy, pertaining to the advisory involvement of The Military History Society of Ireland in the campaign to preserve the Lion's Tower, Galway. Protesting that the demolition of the bastion "would be a

Handwritten draft lecture by G.A. Hayes-McCoy, given to the Irish Countrywomen's Association, Galway branch, on the subject of the Lion's Tower, autumn 1962. Summarising history of the structure, and current attempts to preserve it for the future.

File of memorandum and draft press statement, entitled "Case for preservation made before Borough Council by Old Galway Society".

File of correspondence between G.A. Hayes-McCoy and The Military History Society, and Galway Corporation, The Office of Public Works, and private parties concerned with the future of the landmark "The Lion's Tower"; also correspondence between other inter

File of press cuttings collected by [G.A. Hayes-McCoy ] from the Connacht Tribune , Evening Herald , Galway Observer , The Irish Press , Connacht Sentinel , and other papers, all regarding the proposed part demolition of the "Lion's Tower", and the reaction of Galway Borough Council when contractor Higgins left the site idle for some period in 1965.