Burren Mount Hotel, Salthill

thesandeman · 04-09-2012 3:52am

Wha?? Think that post needs an edit.

ian 21 · 04-09-2012 10:51am

sorry gave it a bit of edit there

SeanPuddin · 04-09-2012 11:28am

The owners of the Burren Mount threw cold water on a tour and don't want to be disturbed.

ian 21 · 04-09-2012 11:40am

well that was very nice them ya think theyd be glad that some people still have intrest in place rather than wanting it to be knocked

Fiona_242 · 26-01-2013 1:10pm

The owner sadly passed on last year:
DONOGHUE (Burren Mount, Salthill, Galway), Austin (Specials) - Jan. 11, 2012 (suddenly) at U.C.H. Galway, pre-deceased by his father Francie; deeply mourned by his heartbroken mother Maureen, his sister Maria (Beirne), brother-in-law Gerry, niece Leonie, nephew Nathan, aunts, uncles, relatives and many friends.

Any chance the hotel had during the boom to be developed is now gone, and I'd say will stay the way it is for many a year yet. It has always been that way since I was a kid and I am nearly 40 now so I guess it just one of those "Life after People" places. Watch the programme on "Life after People" on National Geo.

biko · 26-01-2013 1:13pm

Source http://www.rip.ie/death_notices_detail.asp?NoticeID=153516

Fiona_242 · 26-01-2013 1:20pm

I stuck my head in there a few years back during the time the Red Arrows used come to Galway and I peeped inside the door, (Door was wide open as I passed) the carpet was dark green and the walls were this dark brown and in the corner opp the main door was like a reception desk and a very old 60's TV stood on a stand beside it. I was taking the piss and saying to my husband we have to get married there! I am intrigued about the place. I think it may be haunted!

Fiona_242 · 26-01-2013 1:21pm

Life after People is on History channel and Channel 4.

Fiona_242 · 26-01-2013 1:28pm

Don't get me wrong I would love a look in side but the man who owns it is due respect and has the right to say NO! It is now the families private property but I think maybe deeds are lost or the place is haunted. Can anyone tell me if anyone stayed in the place when it was open to the public?

I know the house on College Rd was haunted for years, a couple moved in years ago when I was in 2nd school and there child died there and then the electrician was electrocuted off the roof, and some young man hung himself in the back room, the house is now a B&B.
It's the house on the corner opp the traffic lights. I would not stay there if you paid me!

WaltKowalski · 26-01-2013 2:21pm

Fiona_242 wrote: »

I think maybe deeds are lost

What consequence would that have? They're just paper. And the property has been in the same family for so long.

Fiona_242 · 26-01-2013 2:40pm

You cannot sell a property without deeds or transfer a property would the deeds. You cannot give your husband spouse your house and transfer the name onto a property without deeds.

WaltKowalski · 26-01-2013 2:53pm

Fiona_242 wrote: »

You cannot sell a property without deeds or transfer a property would the deeds. You cannot give your husband spouse your house and transfer the name onto a property without deeds.

Not true anyways and definitely not true anymore.
The requirement to produce Land Certificates was abolished a few years ago.
And before that requirement was abolished, paperwork went missing all the time, there are legal ways and means around everything.
www.prai.ie

Fiona_242 · 26-01-2013 4:29pm

Had no idea, thought that is the away it was, interesting to know!

jamesdiver · 27-01-2013 4:04pm

Did'nt realise Austin specials was the same owner. He was well known amongst bikers in Galway as an engineer as far as I know. RIP.

As for tours, if they dont want anyone near it, thats their right, and their privacy should be respected, unlike what some of the above comments seem to suggest.

well that was very nice them ya think theyd be glad that some people still have intrest in place rather than wanting it to be knocked

afro man · 27-01-2013 5:48pm

biko wrote: »

Just for the peeps that don't know the ugliest hotel in Galway.
It kinda has a Soviet 1970s "charm".

jesus it still looks the same i stayed there over 20 0dd years ago for a stag

Fiona_242 · 28-01-2013 5:13pm

What was it like inside 20 years ago? I'd say it its still the same now.

Fiona_242 · 28-01-2013 5:18pm

I'll say one thing those signs on the roof of the building have lasted years and serviced them well! Considering its by the sea and they are getting battered and bruised each winter. (:D

afro man · 28-01-2013 8:25pm

Fiona_242 wrote: »

What was it like inside 20 years ago? I'd say it its still the same now.

it was fairly dated back then dark & gloomy and old fashioned what i can remember of it

Gremlinertia · 28-01-2013 8:44pm

Fiona_242 wrote: »

I'll say one thing those signs on the roof of the building have lasted years and serviced them well! Considering its by the sea and they are getting battered and bruised each winter. (:D

Hadn't thought of that but indeed it is, especially when you look at baileypoint's crumbling plaster. :rolleyes:

whitelightrider · 29-01-2013 9:14am

It still looks as though the rooms are still kitted out as a hotel. At least from the front anyway. Would be a great place to take a tour of.

biko · 29-01-2013 11:04am

Maybe one day. The owners wants it to be regarded as a private residence for the foreseeable future. See post #153.

Fiona_242 · 29-01-2013 1:03pm

The owner does have the right to refuse and has the right to be respected at this time, as it now considered a private residents. If they took the signs down it would take allot of the attention away from the building but since the signs are left in place it seems to lure people and fascinate them!

Fiona_242 · 29-01-2013 1:04pm

Bailey Point is horrible and disgrace of a building with no style or concept! How the Galway County Council allowed to go to plan is beyond me!

jkforde · 27-02-2013 11:52pm

walked past the BM earlier and was amazed and amused to see that the car down the lane has been boarded up! now it looks like some kind of cheap abstract art... why don't they just dump it? strange days indeed momma!

TheCosmicFrog · 28-02-2013 12:11am

jkforde wrote: »

walked past the BM earlier and was amazed and amused to see that the car down the lane has been boarded up! now it looks like some kind of cheap abstract art... why don't they just dump it? strange days indeed momma!

That seems bizarre indeed! You didn't manage to grab a photo, did you?

Notch000 · 28-02-2013 6:38pm

I did !!!

The carpenter was probably stoned he did a pretty good job

Would be good to paint up

Cant imagine that mazada will ever turn a wheel again

Das Kitty · 28-02-2013 6:42pm

Sweet lord!

Brilliant.

Iwannahurl · 28-02-2013 11:21pm

2rkehij30qtza5 · 05-03-2013 12:31am

That's nuts!! The car boarded up, what next?!! There used to be a nightclub or disco in Burren Mount back in my parents hey-days.

thesandeman · 05-03-2013 3:28am

Iris Wide Gown wrote: »

That's nuts!! The car boarded up, what next?!! There used to be a nightclub or disco in Burren Mount back in my parents hey-days.

Yip. At the side underneath. Used to be called 'Francies 21 Club'.
It reopened temporarily as the Festival Club for the Arts Festival when it started to grow legs. First place I saw The Hothouse Flowers when Maria Doyle (Kennedy) was with them.
The sweat would pour off you once you tried to get from the door to the bar and if you tried to do any kind of jumpin you would split your head off the roof.

Brilliant craic though :-) and no trouble.

Burren Mount Hotel, Salthill

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