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.

sweeney hotel

 in Dungloe has still got a long way to go to get to the finish line.  This is the back of the hotel.  I took this photo last week when I was in town.

rearview

 of the sweeney hotel.

sweeney hotel

last week new windows were being installed

skywatch

double rainbow from this past Monday.

 linking to skywatch friday

the rearview

of the sweeney hotel.  They just finished tearing down a wall and a building back there last week.  Now once they clean it up and the covid restrictions allow construction workers back to work, they will proceed.

suspended

construction not allowed starting on Friday at 6 pm,  More activities are being curtailed as the lockdown is tightening,  We noticed that the workers don't even wear masks.  They're not always this far apart from each other.

roof delivery

the telehandler delivering some materials to the roof for the workers.

construction

the old roof was taken off about two weeks ago and now they are starting to build a new one.  Tons of work on the building, it will take a very long time.  It was raining and windy for those workers all day yesterday.  

The Christmas lights were installed around town the other night.

Sweeney's Hotel

was built in the 1850s.  Its founder. Johndie Sweeney, died in 1909 aged 100. His family played an important part in the history of Dungloe, in the Land League and the later struggles for independence, as well as being successful in a range of businesses. 

Info courtesy of the Dungloe Heritage Trail brochure.

The hotel was sold recently and is in the process of being renovated.  Earlier this year, the windows were replaced with new ones.  They just started working on the hotel recently putting up the scaffolding and screening.

yesterday I received a nice surprise package in the mail from a blogger friend.  It was nice of her to send this.   A bookmark with different language spellings for the word book, a postcard of her town, a writing pen, a coaster with the Brunswick Lion, the best-known landmark in the German city of Braunschweig (Brunswick) and a good luck litte pig.  Very nice indeed! :)  Thanks Iris.

rainbow

 a new one to start off the week.