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The Old Man of the Holy Well

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

Oh no! Not Sligo again...

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  • 7 older comments, and then…
  • John Spooner said:
    By 1981 the roof was in disrepair


    Sligo Champion - Friday 30 October 1981(Sligo Champion - Friday 30 October 1981)
  • John Spooner said:
    Is this what's left of it? Streetview PS I think the old station house is a bit further than the building on the left, better seen in this streetview from a viewpoint slightly to the right, with a vestige of the platform still visible.
  • Mike Grimes said:
    That is some change over the years.
  • John Spooner said:
    MIND THE GAP! Miss J B Dodwell, a nurse, had a nasty accident at the station in 1904
    When leaving it [the train] at Balysodare she found (it is alleged) that the platform was lower than the floor of the carriage, and that there was a large space between carriage and platform. While trying to reach the latter she slipped and fell between it and the carriage. She had a narrow escape. "Fortunately the train was not in motion," said her counsel, but she was very much injured, and had to be taken on to Enniskillen.
    Miss Dodwell was off work for a month and was awarded £150* damages at Derry City Assizes. (Irish Independent - Thursday 23 March 1905) *£14,000 - £24,000 depending on which inflation calculator you use.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    From eiretrains: Ballysadare, Co.Sligo, is located on the Midland Great Western Railway's Dublin to Sligo line, and is the last station before Sligo itself. The station opened with the line in 1862, but closed to passengers in 1963 and to goods in 1975. The station had two platforms, but the up platform and signal cabin have been demolished since the track upgrading. The derelict station buildings and goods shed are on the down side. Until the late 1950s, Ballysadare Station was shared between CIE and the Sligo Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway, who operated trains to and from Sligo and Enniskillen. The line from Ballysadare to Sligo was worked as double track until 1959 when the SLNCR line closed, and was lifted soon after. At the north end of the station there as a long siding which diverged through a short rocky cutting into Ballysadare Flour Mill, but was lifted in the late 1960s.

The Pub with no beer?

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    Google Earth Link earth.app.goo.gl/KMcCKe #googleearth Still there, known as GILLOOLY HALL sligocathedral.ie/gillooly-hall/about-gillooly-hall/ “Ireland sober is Ireland free” says the bishop. 1903 per DIA www.dia.ie/works/view/9424/building/CO.+SLIGO%2C+SLIGO%2C... 1895 per NIAH www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/32012...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    1885 according to sligocathedral.ie/gillooly-hall/about-gillooly-hall/ 1895, opened 1904, restored 2013 according to www.independent.ie/regionals/sligo/lifestyle/gillooly-hal... The statue (of the Bishop?) is not yet there; and someone swiped all the frillyitus.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    "Laurence Gillooly CM (May 12, 1819 – January 12, 1895) was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop who served as the Bishop of Elphin from 1858 to 1895." See - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Gillooly Better bio - www.dib.ie/biography/gillooly-laurence-a3482
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Flickr is sometimes amazing! In 2022 via Fernando Vega
  • John Spooner said:
    Opened on Monday 25th January 1897 according to the Sligo Champion Saturday 30 January 1897
    The new Temperance Hall in Temple Street, Sligo, was formally opened on Monday evening last by Most Rev. Dr. Clancy, Bishop of Elphin. The Hall, which comprises the Temple Street Schools, is intended to be utilized as a reading and recreation room for the members of the Sligo Total Abstinence League of the Sacred Heart. The League has made great progress in the town since its inception some weeks ago, and already its members may be numbered in hundreds. There is no doubt of the great benefit that will accrue from the movement to the excesses classes in the town amongst whom intemperance is most prevalent. Even now we notice a decrease in the number of cases before the Borough Court. On Monday evening there was large attendance at the Hal! to hear Dr. Clancy’s opening address. His Lordship gave a most eloquent and touching discourse, which was listened to with attention, and warmly applauded its conclusion. Several new members were then enrolled. The Sligo String Band, under the conductorship of Mr. H. Donovan, performed a choice selection of music during the evening.