The men and women stranded when the Armada tried to round Ireland were mostly rounded up and hanged.

The Spanish Arch in Galway is supposed t oremind us of traffic between the city of the tribes and Spain, and the Spanish-Galway type ofcourse.

But all that aside, recent genetic research has found the 'Irish gene' has come from North Spain. Settlers from there came to Ireland and pretty much stayed put after arrival, to the extend that a tv documentary recently had dna of a child found buried in a wedge tomb in the Burren some years ago compared to children presently in the local school. They were directly related.