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25 October, 2016

beach road 1

To the left is Beach Road and on the right is Sky Road.   On our first full day here, we walked Beach Road, went to the end and then returned.  It was about 5km (3 miles).  We walked Sky Road the second day.  Beach Road is the starting point for today's photos.


Combined former Methodist chapel and manse, built c.1850.  The building also housed a schoolhouse.  This ornate chapel, with its pointed arched hood mouldings, served a small Wesleyan Methodist community of shopkeepers, policemen and coastguards (1854-1908).  It would be great if this building was renovated.  




no info on this old rusty anchor, like to know the story behind it


This monument is located across from the chapel on Sky Road.  On a sign it reads:  The Celtic cross monument remembers Thomas Whelan, a native of Clifden and member of the Dublin Volunteers.  He was executed in Mountjoy Jail on 14 March 1921 during the War of Independence for the murder in Dublin of a British Officer, despite strong evidence pointing to his innocence.


this is located on the bottom of the monument.


 Royal Nation Lifeboat Station


some of the houses you first see when you begin walking on Beach Road


nice pothole windows


right across the street from the houses



heading out to fish with his best friend