One of the five historic Tuam hotels is going under the hammer

ONE of Tuam’s five historic long-standing hotels, The Connaught Arms on Vicar Street, famous for its early morning fair day licence, is to be sold.
In the early 1900s Tuam had five hotels, including this one, and The White Star (now Gleeson’s Chemists) on the same street. The others were the current Corralea Court on The Square (previously The Imperial, Guy’s and earlier still Daly’s Hotel), The Central (or Lydon’s Hotel) on Shop Street (now a law and accountancy offices) and The Mitre which was initially on Shop Street in the 1700s and on Bishop Street in the early 1900s where Eamonn Geraghty’s Menswear Shop now is.
A local historian described The Connaught Arms as having “one of the best facades” of any of the long established business premises in town as well as having “chimneys made of very fine brick”.