sweeney's hotel

renovation is now completed, it took a very long time with the pandemic pauses and the construction workers who left and had to be replaced.  Not only the outside was transformed by the inside had to be gutted.  I think they did a wonderful job and I imagine it was very spendy.  I finally got to see the finished hotel a few months back.  We were living across the street from it when it first began.

photo taken back in Oct 2020 and had to pause for covid

photo taken 1 week after the previous one.

bench shadows

new benches installed at the bridge, 3 here and there are 3 more across the road.

window box

 seen Tuesday morning on main street

cyclist

went flying by me one morning last week. The building on the left is the Market Hall which was newly painted last year.

mister clipboard man

noticed this postal guy walking around with his clipboard and taking some notes.  He walked both sides of the street for about an hour.  Have no idea what he was doing.  Maybe he's a new hire, never saw him before.  I took the photo on Wed.

the paper stop2

 I guess checking your phone is high priority no matter where you are.

 getting the roof done before the bad weather returns.

the paper stop

is in the process of being renovated.  It began in Sept and currently they are working up where the roof used to be.  From one of the locals, this building has been vacant for the last 10 years.  The roof had holes in it and the floors were filled with tons of rubbish which they spent weeks removing and filling the skips.  I have no idea what this building will become but it is going to take a lot more time to finish the project.

photo taken Sept.17th

photo taken Oct 2nd

photo taken Nov 18th

photo taken Jan 23rd

photo taken Jan 23rd

tunnel vision

 noticed this when I was walking by.  It leads to the back of some buildings on main street.

midnight

 waiting for a ride and having a smoke as he waits.

drain problems

snowing

a snowy morning in Glenties.  It snowed off and on all morning but by the end of the day, we had nothing.  The gridders were out doing their job preventing ice from gathering on the roads. 

quiet rainy day

Nothing exciting here when I went outside.  I saw one person walking way down the street, no one else around.  Rainy day, pouring down at times so I went back in and had a cuppa tea. 

workers

carrying in plywood to the building that is being renovated, the tall white one.  The plywood was dropped off about 50 meters so they had t carry it one piece at a time.  

time for coffee

wreaths

 from the flower shop.

tractor

 there is even enough  space to park your tractor on main street.

bridge painting

on main street.  They do this every year before the tourists flock to town.  That house could also use a makeover too.

break time

old courthouse in Ballinrobe, co Mayo.

I am going to take some time off blogging so I'll see you when I come back.   Be well and have fun.

 

where are they?

someone forgot the holy family, their house remained vacant on Christmas day.  They were last seen last year at this time in the same location, someone messed up.

building renovation

 on main street, taking down the chimney.