Harry checks his 'Terminator' shades in the mirror
From Achill to Strokestown, Mayo and Roscommon, Ireland - 10th August 2017
It's the last day in the Achill Island Hotel, and there's a brief mission to visit the derelict church across the Sound that can be seen from the car park of the hotel. As it happens, it's on private land and inaccessible, but instead there's the chance discovery of the derelict Belfarsad National School, dating from 1913. Then, we head off across Ireland to Dublin but end up stopping almost exactly half-way at the oddly-named Strokestown in County Roscommon which, as well as containing the second-widest street in Ireland is also home to Strokestown Park - a grand Palladian house the owners of which became notorious for their famine-era eviction of some 11,000 tenants. Finally, after a few more hours, we end up at Da Gorls' house in Monkstown, County Dublin - the culmination of around 1,000 miles of driving, not counting the 500 to and from Liverpool.
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Gabes with his breakfast sunglasses
Everyone seems to be in reception as we check out
The empty 70s-style BSL office in Achill
E. T. Sweeney garage in Achill
Closed petrol pumps
The largely-closed Sweeney petrol station in Achill
Wasteland behind the garage
Belfarsad church in the distance
Sheep are dotted around a field
Achill's swing bridge in the distance
The sadly derelict Belfarsad National School, 1913
Piles of rusting ironwork
A window within a window
The back of the derelict school
A heap of discarded books adds to the poignancy
Iron wheel in the grass
The derelict school
The old school gate
Another derelict house in Belfarsad
A derelict room, but like someone has only just left
A trashed fireplace
There's a suitace on the bed, ready for holidays
Pictures from an exhibition and a worn-out sofa
An out-house has lost its roof
A ribbon road
Piles of 'bog oak' in a field near Newport
More piles of bog oak
Vanishing-point highway near Newport
A lovely old Daimler at Kelly's Garage in Newport
Reflected buildings and Daimler interior
The Sovereign looks lit up against the gloomy houses
Lovely street-side petrol station in Strokestown
Petrol station on the High Street
Vintage air line at the Strokestown Texaco
The Beirne traditional shop front
Adverts for Strokestown Park
Church Street - the second-widest in Ireland
Looking down Church Street to the roundabout
A hardware shop on Church Street
Dockery Meats
A knackered van and a house for sale
A shed on the pavement, Church Street
Ribbons on a roundabout Maypole
The national Famine commemoration
A fake window painted on a house wall
Strokestown Park House
Harry, Isobel and Fred in the long grass
The gang explore the house
We head off into a tunnel
Roaming in a servants' tunnel
Peering into windows
Harry runs off into a woodland walk
Amusing anthropomorphic tree
Harry is sceptical about there being fairies
A fairy's house
The restored walled gardens
We reach Evelyn and Louise's house and eat pizza
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Harry checks his 'Terminator' shades in the mirror
Harry checks his 'Terminator' shades in the mirror
Gabes with his breakfast sunglasses
Everyone seems to be in reception as we check out
The empty 70s-style BSL office in Achill
E. T. Sweeney garage in Achill
Closed petrol pumps
The largely-closed Sweeney petrol station in Achill
Wasteland behind the garage
Belfarsad church in the distance
Sheep are dotted around a field
Achill's swing bridge in the distance
The sadly derelict Belfarsad National School, 1913
Piles of rusting ironwork
A window within a window
The back of the derelict school
A heap of discarded books adds to the poignancy
Iron wheel in the grass
The derelict school
The old school gate
Another derelict house in Belfarsad
A derelict room, but like someone has only just left
A trashed fireplace
There's a suitace on the bed, ready for holidays
Pictures from an exhibition and a worn-out sofa
An out-house has lost its roof
A ribbon road
Piles of 'bog oak' in a field near Newport
More piles of bog oak
Vanishing-point highway near Newport
A lovely old Daimler at Kelly's Garage in Newport
Reflected buildings and Daimler interior
The Sovereign looks lit up against the gloomy houses
Lovely street-side petrol station in Strokestown
Petrol station on the High Street
Vintage air line at the Strokestown Texaco
The Beirne traditional shop front
Adverts for Strokestown Park
Church Street - the second-widest in Ireland
Looking down Church Street to the roundabout
A hardware shop on Church Street
Dockery Meats
A knackered van and a house for sale
A shed on the pavement, Church Street
Ribbons on a roundabout Maypole
The national Famine commemoration
A fake window painted on a house wall
Strokestown Park House
Harry, Isobel and Fred in the long grass
The gang explore the house
We head off into a tunnel
Roaming in a servants' tunnel
Peering into windows
Harry runs off into a woodland walk
Amusing anthropomorphic tree
Harry is sceptical about there being fairies
A fairy's house
The restored walled gardens
We reach Evelyn and Louise's house and eat pizza