Market Street / Bowgate Street

Bowgate Street

What kind of lamp is to be seen?

When do you think electricity was brought to Ballinrobe?

What, do you think, was the Catholic Repository?
Was it in a good location?
Would such a shop do well today?

Miss Dee owned the shop for many years until she died in the 1970's...

...but Willie Hughes goes farther back with his memories

 

 

Tógadh an pictiúr seo sa bhliain 1984

Was there much traffic in the Eighties?

 

Here is some new building going on in this street
(about where the number 5 is on the map below)

Are efforts being made to make it fit in with the older buildings?:
Look at the size of the upstairs windows

One modern feature is the construction of an underground carpark at the back