Stephen Lynch fitz James, Mayor of Galway

Mayor of Galway

The office of Mayor of Galway is an honorific title used by the of Galway City Council. The Council has jurisdiction throughout its administrative area which is the city of Galway – the largest city in the province of Connacht, in the Republic of Ireland. The office was originally established by a...

, fl. 1499-1524.

Lynch is believed to have been son of James Lynch fitz Stephen, Mayor 1493-94. He and Peter French were the town bailiff

Bailiff

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s 1499-1500 under Mayor James Lynch fitz Martin. Stephen served three terms as Mayor: 1509-10, 1516–17 and 1523-23. During his first term he passed a statute

Statute

A statute is a formal written enactment of a legislative authority that governs a state, city, or county. Typically, statutes command or prohibit something, or declare policy. The word is often used to distinguish law made by legislative bodies from case law, decided by courts, and regulations...

 penalising anyone who kept any swine or goat

Goat

The domestic goat is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep as both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae. There are over three hundred distinct breeds of...

s in town for more than fourteen days.