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Are those ploughs on display on the kerbside outside what appears to be the hardware shop?

Streetview EDIT: link fixed

John Spooner Definitely shiny new single furrow ploughs just waiting for a buyer. I would say it's safe to assume they would be horse drawn.

I think O'Brien's is now the Roost Bar in streetview. Check the chimney pots on the left.

OS 25" link at GeoHive.

Two storey house to the left is still visible in Streetview. One of the few railway shots we've seen where things are in better nick today!

Niall McAuley Thanks for Streetview, Niall. That house was apparently the old Station Master's house, or so I've been told.

I'd be interested to see this O'Dea photo, although it does not seem to be digitized yet. I think it may be beside my old primary school.

Niall McAuley Will pop it up next week, Niall - not the most exciting photo ever (with all due respect to James O'Dea), but I'll add something else the same day to keep everyone else happy too... Amazingly, it seems to be the only photo with Churchtown in any of our catalogue info! Anywhere else around your old stomping ground that you'd like to see?

That's Great, Thanks very much for uploading this. I live right next to the station and it has changed so so much since then. The signal cabin is still there thankfully! Once again thanks for putting this up.

“ 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