The Old Galway Diary Podcast - Episode 261 - De Burgo's Mansion

I thought that was the French mansion, isn't it funny?

No.

Well, funnily enough, there is actually some French arms on

this.

This is the one where the kind of tribune is.

a little bit to the right of the Tribune.

That's right, as you entered into the kind of Tribune Yard.

Yeah, exactly.

I know where that doorway is, you know.

Oh, really? Yeah, because Dale McNally, that used to be McNally Yard one time.

Yeah, yeah, I know that,

yeah.

And Dale McNally told me one time that they bulldozed it into the ground and the under the foundations of the road in

oh jeez and

it's down there it's down there too

in powder form I mean imagine that's dreadful yeah

well like it's it's in intact the pieces of it are all intact but it's just huge and for balance

oh that's shocking well uh When you see this photograph this week, you will understand why that's a crime against nature, really.

Because...

I did a painting of it one time.

I'm familiar with

it.

Yeah.

Well, the photograph was actually taken in the mid-1800s.

About 1865.