Abattoir

Winston79 · 09-08-2011 10:20pm #1

Does anyone know where the old abattoir was/is in Galway? Going back 40 years there was one somewhere near the docks but i can't find any info on google etc.

Anyone know anything about it?

karen89 · 09-08-2011 10:25pm

I can find out and get back to you tomorrow if thats any good to you!!

Winston79 · 09-08-2011 10:27pm

karen89 wrote: »

I can find out and get back to you tomorrow if thats any good to you!!

Thanks, my gf's grandfather is down from Belfast and worked there 40 years ago, he is looking to go and see the site but isn't sure where it is. Cheers!

theprisoner · 09-08-2011 10:31pm

There was an abattoir directly across from the Fair-green hostel, slightly up but on the same side where Habitat used to be. I lived across from there in the Elms could hear the animals scream.

moy83 · 09-08-2011 10:33pm

there was one up in the square i think around where the bus station is .It closed in the late eighties early nineties . Could that be the one he is thinking of ?

jimbobaloobob · 09-08-2011 10:50pm

yea i think thats the one alright, up near the fair green or directly opposite the bus station steps as they are right now.

theres books of old galway in Eason that will give you all that history.

Maurice Spellman is the author as far as im aware.

Das Kitty · 09-08-2011 11:00pm

Oh that horrific sound of the circular saw and the screaming pigs. Stuff of nightmares! And the poor little sheep being herded up the grille and in the door.

Welcome to Galway!

ronnie3585 · 09-08-2011 11:03pm

Das Kitty wrote: »

Oh that horrific sound of the circular saw and the succulent pigs. Stuff of nightmares! And the delicious little sheep being herded up the grille and in the door.

Welcome to Galway!

FYP:)

jimbobaloobob · 09-08-2011 11:04pm

Das Kitty wrote: »

Oh that horrific sound of the circular saw and the screaming pigs. Stuff of nightmares! And the poor little sheep being herded up the grille and in the door.

Welcome to Galway!

Sounds like your describing the students returning by train and bus for another year of college

Das Kitty · 09-08-2011 11:09pm

ronnie3585 wrote: »

FYP:)

That too, but not what you want to hear after an uncomfortable train journey.

I swear it had a lot to do with me being so morbid as a kid.

Winston79 · 10-08-2011 1:00am

Thanks guys. Not the kind of place i'd enjoy working in but a trip down memory lane for Granda!

barryd09 · 10-08-2011 1:17am

i vaguely remember it myself!

also,anyone remember hurdy gurdys up eyre square at certain times of the year?right in front of the current bank of ireland building.

kraggy · 10-08-2011 5:45am

Winston79 wrote: »

Does anyone know where the old abattoir was/is in Galway? Going back 40 years there was one somewhere near the docks but i can't find any info on google etc.

Anyone know anything about it?

You don't have to back 40 years. It was still there when I was going to school.

It was there until c.20 years ago. Maybe even less.

Head The Wall · 10-08-2011 7:43am

There used to be a small market also where the webworks building is now. You could buy live pigs, sheep and cows and then bring them across the road to the abbatoir to get slaughtered

Das Kitty · 10-08-2011 7:55am

Head The Wall wrote: »

There used to be a small market also where the webworks building is now. You could buy live pigs, sheep and cows and then bring them across the road to the abbatoir to get slaughtered

It put the fair in fairgreen!

I remember the hurdy gurdies too. The swing boats rocked, there was always one side where the rope was too short and it kept shooting out of your hand on the downswing.

karen89 · 10-08-2011 9:10pm

yup it was at the fairgreen beside where the train station is!!!

jimbobaloobob · 10-08-2011 9:54pm

there was also a slaughter house down near the market or st nicholas church. if you were to travel from the saturday market up the street towards cps theres a car park on the left there, there as a slaughter house there too as far as im aware.

again those books i mentioned would confirm it.

mrsdewinter · 10-08-2011 10:47pm

Yup, the abattoir was def beside the station. Say, where the Fair Green Hostel is now.
Must have closed in the mid-90s - maybe 95?

11-08-2011 10:38am

kraggy wrote: »

Winston79 wrote: »

Does anyone know where the old abattoir was/is in Galway? Going back 40 years there was one somewhere near the docks but i can't find any info on google etc.

Anyone know anything about it?

You don't have to back 40 years. It was still there when I was going to school.

It was there until c.20 years ago. Maybe even less.

Definitely c.10 years ago the building itself was there, but I think it lay vacant for a long time?

11-08-2011 11:28am

The abattoir was open until the mid 90s

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

there was also a slaughter house down near the market or st nicholas church. if you were to travel from the saturday market up the street towards cps theres a car park on the left there, there as a slaughter house there too as far as im aware.

again those books i mentioned would confirm it.

? I understood that was the site of the Old Mon (a predecessor of St. Pats and the Bish) though looking at the Bish history site it only refers to Lombard street and not Market street so I could be wrong.

kabakuyu · 14-08-2011 12:19am

The oldest abattoir was situated at the site of the carpark beside Sally Longs pub at the junction of Bowlingreen lane and Newtownsmyth, the entrance was on Bowlingreen lane,the river that runs at the side of the carpark(it used to power a turbine in the ESB)is called by locals Slaughterhouse River but I did hear that some jobsworth is trying to change the name to somehthing more pc.

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