What is this place?

beardybrewer · 20-02-2019 05:53PM #1

https://goo.gl/maps/qh3iRqYSjuk

Ignore the picture of the cathedral if it comes up. Should be a pin dropped near the Galway Clinic. Was on the 3rd floor today looking out the back of the place when I noticed a large Irish flag flying above a castle-like / manor house looking structure. I'm pretty sure this is it on the map but it's a poor satellite picture.

Anyone have any idea what this place is or was?

beardybrewer · 20-02-2019 06:00PM

Aha, finally got a street view pic of it from the Doughiska Rd.

Hopefully this opens up the same and you can see it.

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.2806862,-8.9661947,3a,32.8y,352.02h,89.38t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfBOsjb7BqjtJvY9aoUh4qg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Tomtom364 · 20-02-2019 06:02PM

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.2820333,-8.9671383,3a,90y,354.6h,82.74t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNBqfr5XizFJNRcCRj7_RHi3fJcxvD9wEAGMWI8!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNBqfr5XizFJNRcCRj7_RHi3fJcxvD9wEAGMWI8%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya181.20578-ro0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352

this makes it look like something out on an apocalypse movie...

?Cee?view · 20-02-2019 06:06PM

Is that the one you can also see in the distance from the end of the motorway?

AFAIK, it is/was a private house. Just shows you that money and taste don't necessarily go together!

ratracer · 20-02-2019 06:07PM

It’s just a private house built during the boom by a builder.

20-02-2019 07:12PM

I think it has come up one here before - as above it is a private house complete with home (not a cinema as I thought) chapel.

https://galwaycity.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=50a3eaac4fa047919ef97860c38bc7a4
The planning application was submitted in 1999.

bobbyss · 20-02-2019 08:36PM

?Cee?view wrote:

AFAIK, it is/was a private house. Just shows you that money and taste don't necessarily go together!

It looks like some kind of castle but I believe it's a private home.
Looks decent to me.

Mrs OBumble · 20-02-2019 10:39PM

?Cee?view wrote: »

Is that the one you can also see in the distance from the end of the motorway?

AFAIK, it is/was a private house. Just shows you that money and taste don't necessarily go together!

It's more tasteful than many of the mcmansions littering the countryside.

21-02-2019 02:13PM

Can see it all the way from Parkmore.
I asked a builder friend about it years ago, and he said the same thing. Recently built, and private dwelling.
I'd like my own castle

aw · 23-02-2019 12:39PM

Private home built by developer/hospitality owner.
I think the financial crash was not kind to them, but they still live there (or did up to recently, at least).

1perriwinkle · 25-02-2019 11:32PM

I had heard ages back that planning was not necessarily in place for all the “bits added on”, but it was only hearsay so perhaps someone else knows more?

marklazarcovic · 01-03-2019 09:04AM

i was told by a local it was a replica of a disney castle,they were living in mobile homes on the site. also that the building didnt conform,it looks worse up close,been there .

inisboffin · 01-03-2019 10:45AM

So is this now a thread about someone's private home with people speculating about the residents' financial state and whether or not they have the correct planning permission? Wow. I'd nearly prefer traffic.

biko · 01-03-2019 11:08AM

Since OP's question is answered we'll stop here

What is this place?

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