Eyre Square is a public city park, also known as John F. Kennedy Memorial Park. It is rectangular in shape and is surrounded on three sides by the streets that form the main thoroughfares in the center of Galway. The western part of the square was closed to car traffic in 2006. There are, among others a bust of US President John F. Kennedy and a statue of Liam Mellows, hero of the Revolutionary War. It also houses the Quincentennial Fountain.
The beginnings of the square are related to the open space in front of the city gate, called the Green one, already in the Middle Ages. At that time, a market square was organized in its northern part. The area began to function as Eyre Square in 1710 on the initiative of Mayor Edward Eyre, from whom it is named. In the mid-nineteenth century, the entire park underwent a major reconstruction. In the 1960s, full-scale reconstruction began. At that time, the iron balustrades were removed and the area around the yard of the collegiate church of St. Nicholas.
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