Galway In Days Gone By

1919

New era for Salthill

Recently there have been two interesting house purchases at Salthill for residential purposes, and Seamount, with its well-laid-out grounds, has been established as a modern hospital.

But the need has always existed for an up-to-date hotel that would provide good-class accommodation for guests, motor-trips and excursions, dancing and other amusements.

At one o’clock on Tuesday, September 23, Barfield, with its out-offices and lawn, which comprises a newly laid-out tennis court, and over two acres of ground, will be sold; and it has been suggested that it would provide the nucleus for an excellent hotel.

There are three large reception rooms, ten bedrooms of considerable size, and ample room for extension. The stables afford garage and other accommodation. If some enterprising hotel proprietor, or some local company were to purchase Barfield and enter upon the necessary improvements, it would inaugurate a new era in Salthill.

The resort can never achieve universal popularity until reasonable amusements are provided.

Winter shadows

Soon winter with its “grey despair”, will be upon us. Already, it casts its gaunt shadows. Mr. Cunningham forcibly reminded us of one of them at yesterday’s meeting of the Galway Urban Council.

Owing to the scarcity of winter feeding stuffs, he told us, people who formerly kept five milch cows were now only able to keep two. He suggested that the Government should be requested to facilitate the import of maize, cotton-cake, oil cake and other feeding stuffs; but Mr. T. C. McDonogh pointed out that feeding stuffs were being held up in Dublin through the Dockers’ strike.

Land War veteran dies

Sympathy has been expressed with Mr. James Stewart, the well-known building contractor, of Lower Salthill, Galway, upon the recent death of his father, Mr. Joseph Stewart, farmer, Kylenamelly, Woodford.

The deceased farmer had attained seventy-one years of age, and was one of the best-known champions of the tenants in the land war on the Clanricarde estate in the ‘80s. Evicted from his holding at Kylenamelly during the clearances thirty-one years ago, he never left the district, and after years of patient waiting, was restored to his old home about three years ago.

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