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I am in awe of the stonework pattern painted on Phelan's front wall. I wonder what colours it was.

I think there is a dog under the cart on the right.

Dubris We have come across similar paintwork before, could you imagine being the painter!

DannyM8 I think you are right.

Earliest date - The Post Office on the left is "c. 1911" according to arrow.tudublin.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&co... The women coming out of the PO look 1915-ish to me. Long dresses and the beginnings of cloche hats. A later reverse view shows different, more elaborate telegraph poles, and more creeper on the tower.

Ooo! - Furey's Bar is still there - streetview - www.google.com.au/maps/@53.4293805,-6.9163092,3a,75y,33.3...

Apologies - Flickr is not too happy with google links at the moment. Someone else might have more luck!

We have visited before - That's Mr O'Dea on the left

Exterior view in 2016 via www.flickr.com/photos/cogy/ (Flickr is sometimes amazing) -

The bar s still there.

“ McMahon Hall, commonly known as Aula Maxima, is a nineteenth century theatre building located on Maynooth University’s southern campus.

A seminarian attached to St. Patrick’s College was working at the theatre in the 1940s, when he fell to his death from the projectionists box. His ghost is said to haunt the venue to this day, and some claim that he has a way of showing his approval (or disapproval) of productions taking place at the historic venue. A projectionists chair is said to turn away from the stage if he does not like what he is seeing!”

spiritedisle.ie/explore-listing/aula-maxima/

Suck Diesel Oooh, starting early with the spooky stories, thank you.

With additions (spot the original building) in 2011
via Student Programs

"Unsympathetically extended" c1940, says the NIAH www.buildingsofireland.ie/

When Monkey Morgan swung by in July 1955 the pointy roof and buttresses were there, but not the fugly bit (lavatories?!) on the front - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000734871