Main Street

What was for sale in B. Joyce's shop?
Is it likely to be any different today?

Willie Hughes talks about when he owned the hardware shop which had been the drapery

The large building on the right with the arched windows had the courthouse upstairs.
It has the same function today.
Downstairs used to be a warehouse for the Council
What can you buy there, in O'Connor's, today?

Do you think the street has improved in its appearance?
What evidence do you see for Ballinrobe to get good marks in the National Tidy Towns contest?

These lovely pictures are from this website:

http://www.maggieblanck.com/Mayopages/OPBR.html

Can you see the carriage on the left?

cutstone buildings

Here is a detail from the right-hand side of the street
Original stonework and old-style windows are to be seen, but what could be improved?

library entrance

This is the entrance to St. Mary's Protestant Church, which is on the left-hand-side of Main St.

What do you suspect has been done to the church?

old church, new library

Is this a good place for a library?
Why is it no longer a Protestant church?

Would you say there were more Protestants in Ballinrobe one hundred years ago?

An féidir leat an séipéal seo a fháil ar an léarscáil?