Qualla: Salthill https://qualla.com/salthill en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/w/salthill-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Salthill https://qualla.com/salthill Salthill: Introduction https://qualla.com/salthill/ Photo credit Dennis Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0. Two kilometres of promenade, locally just 'the Prom,' run along Galway Bay south-west of the city centre. People walk it. They do not stroll - they walk, fast and purposefully, often in matching rain jackets, often with a small dog, often into a wind blowing straight off the Atlantic. There is a tradition of kicking the wall at the far end before turning around. Nobody can quite explain when it started. The medicinal baths that put Salthill on the map opened in 1831 and burned down in 1870. The promenade itself opened in 1856. The tradition of walking it appears to be older than either.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/w/salthill-wp/gc3w-salthill-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Salthill: Salt Hill, with Baths https://qualla.com/salthill/ Photo credit Kingaarog, CC BY-SA 4.0. Until 1819 the village was Salt Hill, two words, and it sat distinctly apart from Galway city - an outlying hamlet on the bay. Doctor Robert Rogers Gray opened his artificial medicinal baths in 1831 on what is now Claude Toft Park - reclaimed land at the eastern end of the prom. ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/w/salthill-wp/gc3w-salthill-salt-hill-with-baths.mp3 0:06 2 full Salthill: Trams and Hotels https://qualla.com/salthill/ Photo credit calflier001, CC BY-SA 2.0. By the 1870s, four-wheeled horse buses carrying twenty-five passengers were shuttling between Salthill and Galway city. In 1877 William Leadbetter Barrington, inspired by the tramways opening in Dublin and Belfast, pushed a bill through the British Parliament to electrify the con...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/w/salthill-wp/gc3w-salthill-trams-and-hotels.mp3 0:06 3 full Salthill: Blackrock Tower on Christmas Day https://qualla.com/salthill/ Photo credit DC Chadwick, CC BY-SA 4.0. At the far western end of the promenade stands Blackrock Diving Tower - a concrete platform built out over the sea, two or three storeys high, with a flat top for jumping from. Every Christmas Day a swarm of people, some of them in Santa hats, some of them with hangovers from the...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/w/salthill-wp/gc3w-salthill-blackrock-tower-on-christmas-day.mp3 0:06 4 full Salthill: Pearse Stadium and the Air Show https://qualla.com/salthill/ Photo credit Prince123, Public domain. Salthill-Knocknacarra GAA, the local club, won the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship in 2006 - beating Antrim's St Gall's in the final, in a result that put the Galway suburb briefly into the centre of the Gaelic football conversation. The club's Ladies team took the ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/w/salthill-wp/gc3w-salthill-pearse-stadium-and-the-air-show.mp3 0:06 5 full Salthill: Galway Girl https://qualla.com/salthill/ Photo credit P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0. Salthill was a centre point for the 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race when the fleet stopped over in Galway, and again for the Round-Ireland Powerboat Race in 2010. The bay opens to the west and the sunsets across it have given Galway one of the recognisable images Ireland exports. Steve ...

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