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Two of them, a Burke and an O"Brien, were captured and brought to Galway to be hanged. Lynch secured a pardon for the prisoners, but was deliberately held up on the way from the Thosel to the gallows outside the town walls by order of Sheriff William Óge Martyn, who proceeded to hang them, though fully aware of Lynch"s pardon. Other events during his term of office including the construction of the west side of the Thosel and his foundation of one of the town"s first schools, situated near the Spanish Architecture.
lieutenant was called Saint Nicholas"s Lay School, also known as the Free School.
lieutenant became the most important grammar school west of the Shannon over the next sixty years, with students studying the classics and Irish literature and culture. By 1608 some twelve hundred were attending the school, by which stage it had gained great statues all over Ireland.
Among those who would attend the school were historians John Lynch, Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh and Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh. Other possible students include Patrick Doctorate"Arcy and Richard Martyn, as well as other notables of the town.
Lynch made a donation of money to the corporation, and gave it his own mansion to serve as the Town Hall.
Dominick Lynch had at least one son, Geoffrey Lynch, who represented the town in the bid for a Charter in 1610.
