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Help Identifying this Grotto from Ennis

  • 14-02-2016 7:30pm
    #1
    bardcom
    Registered Users Posts: 290 ✭✭


    Hi,

    Can anyone help me identify this grotto in Ennis?

    The photo also appears as the top picture towards the bottom of an article on a book launch. (scroll down a fair bit towards the end) http://astheywere.blogspot.ie/2015_05_01_archive.html

    Thank you.


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  • #2
    Deagol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭Deagol


    Finding them on google maps is fun :)

    Not: Connolly Villas, Buttermarket St, Ballybeg, Dalcassian Park, Hempfield, St. Michaels Villas, Marian Avenue, McHugh Villas.

    Can't find / can't see: Cathedral, Davitt Terrace, Erinagh Fountain, Franciscan Friary, Claremont, Clarecastle, Lees Road, Loughville, Peoples Park (??).

    No longer exists: Market Street.


  • #3
    johnam
    Registered Users Posts: 210 ✭✭johnam


    It is in ballybeg under the watertower. It has changed since google maps did their street view drive by. see location here


  • #4
    Deagol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭Deagol


    johnam wrote: »
    It is in ballybeg under the watertower. It has changed since google maps did their street view drive by. see location here

    I cry foul!! Not a fair question! :)


  • #5
    bardcom
    Registered Users Posts: 290 ✭✭bardcom


    Thanks everyone ... but I'm not convinced that the one under the watertower is the same grotto.

    This photo from geograph.ie http://www.geograph.ie/photo/2184575 (taken in 2010) appears to show the same statue as is currently there - which has a different surround to the one in the photo and is therefore a different statue?


  • #6
    bardcom
    Registered Users Posts: 290 ✭✭bardcom


    johnam wrote: »
    It is in ballybeg under the watertower. It has changed since google maps did their street view drive by. see location here

    Hi Johnam, do you have any idea when the grotto was altered? Was it before 2010 when the geograph picture I posted earlier was taken?


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  • #7
    johnam
    Registered Users Posts: 210 ✭✭johnam


    bardcom wrote: »
    Hi Johnam, do you have any idea when the grotto was altered? Was it before 2010 when the geograph picture I posted earlier was taken?

    No idea, but it was altered. There is a stone wall being built in the google street view image, so maybe it was done at that time. Either way, this image shows it in its current form. Sorry for the poor image, it was taken by a friend in a hurry this morning.


  • #8
    SILVAMAN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭SILVAMAN


    bardcom wrote: »
    Thanks everyone ... but I'm not convinced that the one under the watertower is the same grotto.

    This photo from geograph.ie http://www.geograph.ie/photo/2184575 (taken in 2010) appears to show the same statue as is currently there - which has a different surround to the one in the photo and is therefore a different statue?

    It's Ballybeg-there was a forest of Lawson Cypress there and that's what is behind the wall.


  • #9
    bardcom
    Registered Users Posts: 290 ✭✭bardcom


    Hi, just an update and thank you for all your help.

    I've received confirmation that this definitely is the grotto in Ballybeg. Thank you for all your help. It seems the grotto was vandalised after the pics in Google Earth and geograph were taken in 2010, and the grotto was rebuild in 2011. The keystone of the new grotto is a piece of stone from Croagh Patrick.


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