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Upper Bridge Street, Boyle
Upper Bridge Street, Boyle
This view of Upper Bridge Street, Boyle is a black and white photo postcard taken by P.C. Photo Great Britain. The Clock Tower dominates the foreground. The Abbey Cinema, refurbished in 1939 can be seen as the second building on the left with the round doorway, now Kelly's Pound Shop. The Ford Anglia is slowly making it's way up a somewhat improved road, and the bicycle, parked in the top left foreground of the picture, shows that the horse and cart, still in evidence, was beginning to be replaced as the chief mode of transport.
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Abbey Ruins, Roscommon
Abbey Ruins, Roscommon
Roscommon priory was founded for the Dominicans, by Felim O'Conor, King of Connaught, in 1253. It was consecrated in 1257, but was ravaged by fire in 1308. It was rebuilt in 1453 and the surviving fragments, belong in the main to about that date. This colour tinted photo postcard is an outside view, from the north west, of the ivy choked church. This originally consisted of one long aisle, and the lancet windows in the south wall are still preserved. The most remarkable feature of the priory, is the effigy of King Felim O'Conor, in a niche in the north wall, near where the altar once stood. There are eight mail clad warriors, representing gallowglasses, condemned forever to guard and protect the tomb of their chieftain.
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Old Jail, Roscommon
Old Jail, Roscommon
This colour tinted photo was taken by John Valentine of the Old Jail, Roscommon. It was built c.1740, and occupies a prominent position in the town centre. The facade is all that is left today, and a modern extension now houses the Stone Court shopping centre. It was possibly designed by Richard Cassels, who also designed Leinster House, Powerscourt House, and Cartron House. It had the distinction of having a lady hangwoman, in the person of "Lady Betty", herself a criminal, who had her sentence withdrawn, on condition that she carried out her gruesome task without pay. The top most arch in the centre of the building, housed the bell that announced exercise periods and mealtimes. Public hangings were reportedly carried out from a timber platform, built outside the fourth storey doorway, on the left hand side of the image. The wrought iron railing outside the main door was still in situ, when the photographer took this shot. The horses with their cartloads of turf, are attended only by a young boy, whilst their masters sup at the inn, perhaps? Having served as a jail for nearly one hundred years, it became a lunatic asylum post 1822 and ten years later it became a lazeretto - a refuge for small pox sufferers. Its use changed yet again to a market house, a private dwelling house for numerous Roscommon families, and finally, a shopping centre in 1999.
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John Delaney's Castlerea
John Delaney's Castlerea
This postcard shows John Delaney's Grocery and Spirit Dealer. He was also a tea, hardware and seed merchant. The man in the doorway is John Delaney, whilst the lady standing outside the residential side of the house, is Mrs. Fahy of the bakery with the same name. The boy standing beside her is John's son, later to become a doctor. Donated by Anthony Touhy, Main Street, Castlerea
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Tully's Hotel, Castlerea, Co. Roscommon, Ireland
Tully's Hotel, Castlerea, Co. Roscommon, Ireland
This colour postcard taken possibly in the 1970's is of Tully's Hotel, Castlerea. The Tully family took it over from a Mr. Morley. Robert Flynn's general merchant store is the business house next door.
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Church of the Sacred Heart, Roscommon
Church of the Sacred Heart, Roscommon
The Sacred Heart Church, Abbey Street, Roscommon was just over a decade old when Lawrence took this photograph. It was dedicated in 1903, and had yet to acquire the clock on its third-stage tower (1915) and spire on its fifth-stage tower and cross (1915/16). It was designed in an ornate Gothic style, with the central rose window displaying the best of Venetian art by the firm of Salviati. It was built of local cut stone and is fronted by a sunken grotto. Two of the stone piers, with cast iron gate and railing, can be seen to the foreground of the picture. This card is colour tinted, and was posted in 1907 from Roscommon to Dublin. The message on the reverse noted that the train journey from Roscommon to Dublin would take 4 hours and 35 minutes. A marathon undertaking!
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Church of Sacred Heart, Roscommon
Church of Sacred Heart, Roscommon
A black and white photo postccard (on dull paper) of the RC Sacred Heart Church Abbey Street, Roscommon, complete with it's clock and it's final tower. The image was taken post 1916 as that is when the additions were made. It is a winter Sunday morning and the faithful are leaving the church after Mass, some delaying outside the gates to exchange stories. All are dressed in their "Sunday best", and the priest in the centre of the gate is fully attired with a soutane and hat.
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Harrison Hall, Roscommon
Harrison Hall, Roscommon
This black and white photo postcard, was posted from Roscommon to New York in 1948. It was purchased in Hugh Flynn's store, Main Street, Roscommon. The subject of the card was named for Dr. John Harrison, a well loved medical practitioner, who died in 1890. The horse and cart was still the mode of transport, the road being very rough. The authority of the building is obvious, placed as it is in the centre of the Market Square. This building, originally built as a courthouse in 1750, served the town also as a church in the early 1800's, until the new RC church was built in 1903, in Abbey Street. The parish priest, Fr. Madden who bought it to convert to a church, was responsible for adding the tower and new frontage to the building. It also had uses as a dancehall, opera house and playhouse. It now serves the community as a bank. The memorial surrounded by wrought iron fencing is to the memory of Luke Hayden M.P.
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The Courthouse, Roscommon
The Courthouse, Roscommon
The Courthouse, Roscommon, built in 1832 for the sum of £8,752.00 was described by Isaac Weld in his Statistical Survey of Roscommon, as follows " a new courthouse upon a very commodiuos plan, has been latterly erected in Roscommon, which was not yet entirely completed in all its parts when I visited the place" The well proportioned front facade and elaborate entrance way are Doric in style, and face toward a large enclosed area common to the courthouse and New Gaol. The cupola and stonework are among the striking features of the building. The coat of arms, over the three bay breakfront is the "Lion and Unicorn". In 1922 hundreds of rounds of ammunition were fired at it, to shouts of "Three Cheers for the Free State"! A major fire caused extensive damage to it and also to sixteen dwelling houses in nearby Abbey Street, in June 1882. The Grand Jury restored it, and the building as it is captured by the photographer at the turn of the 20th century is a blend of the earlier building of the 1830's with the more modern reconstruction of the 1880's. The white building peeping out of the front right is the New Gaol.
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The Convent, Roscommon
The Convent, Roscommon
The scene caught on camera by William Lawrence in the early 1900's shows the west facing aspect of the convent and chapel in Roscommon town. The detached two storey building in the middle of the card was later adjoined to the main complex, which included an individual school and laundry. The foundation stone of the chapel was laid in 1859, and was completed in 1861. The tower alas is no longer part of the Convent. The three story building in the background is the Primary school and is actually on the other side of the road, on land adjoining the Sacred Heart Church. This is just visible in the right background of the image, with its four stage tower.
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