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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