My mother was born in the Claddagh in 1930 just before the clearances of the last of the thatch cottages. She used to tell us about the place and I often visit when I return to Galway for holidays.
Spencer Wells, a geneticist of Harvard university could be worth contacting with regard a possible link between the Ancient Claddagh people and the Phoenicians, he is engaged in study. Go raibh mhaith agat alig ins an Claddagh.
