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Burren Mount Hotel, Salthill

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  • #152
    SeanPuddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 751 ✭✭✭SeanPuddin


    TheCosmicFrog wrote: »
    Seriously? I would have been amazed if anyone answered alright...

    What would you have said? :pac:

    Ha I was expecting Hannibal Lector to be honest. If someone came to the door, I'd explain there were some weirdos online that want to see their weird hotel. Would be class to get in for a look around.


  • #153
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I've been approached by friends of the owners.

    The hotel may or may not reopen at some point.
    The owners DO NOT want anyone knocking asking for a tour or a look inside.

    Feel free to discuss the hotel, memories of it and Salthilll etc but the hotel is to be considered a private residence from this point on and I ask you now to not disturb the people living there further.


  • #154
    SeanPuddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 751 ✭✭✭SeanPuddin


    biko wrote: »
    I've been approached by friends of the owners.

    The hotel may or may not reopen at some point.
    The owners DO NOT want anyone knocking asking for a tour or a look inside.

    The Burren Mount will never open again, and until they take down business signs how will they stop people knocking? Bit of a strange thing to ask, but fair enough.


  • #155
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I've asked for them to put a sign or something to indicate the hotel is closed, unless one exists I haven't seen.


  • #156
    Das Kitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,231 ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    In fairness, I live in a private residence and it doesn't stop random people knocking on my door.


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  • #157
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Aye but your house isn't a topic in this forum ;) (where do you live btw? *stalker mode on*)

    Anyway, just to let curious people know the place is closed and won't let anyone in to have a look.


  • #158
    mcmurphy995
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭mcmurphy995


    Never mind the Burren Mount , see the state of The Bailey building beside it .......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


  • #159
    buzz55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 554 ✭✭✭buzz55


    So, there IS actually people living there, currently? I won't be knocking, just curious as I always thought it was empty (for the last five years anyway). Is this not the case?


  • #160
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,087 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Das Kitty wrote: »
    In fairness, I live in a private residence and it doesn't stop random people knocking on my door.

    I'm kinda picking that the JW's don't ask for a tour, though ;)


  • #161
    Das Kitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,231 ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    JustMary wrote: »
    I'm kinda picking that the JW's don't ask for a tour, though ;)

    They want my soul, surely that's worse?

    Not to mention the flocks of kids wanting me to "buy a line". They start so young these days.


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  • #162
    dinneenp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,319 ✭✭✭dinneenp


    biko wrote: »
    I've been approached by friends of the owners.

    The hotel may or may not reopen at some point.
    The owners DO NOT want anyone knocking asking for a tour or a look inside.

    Feel free to discuss the hotel, memories of it and Salthilll etc but the hotel is to be considered a private residence from this point on and I ask you now to not disturb the people living there further.

    That sounds like something from a horror film........


  • #163
    Neyite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,946 ✭✭✭✭Neyite


    mcmurphy995 wrote: »
    Never mind the Burren Mount , see the state of The Bailey building beside it .......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    And apparently the owner or one of the owners who sold the plot to the developer is the long term partner of one of the main objectors to the galway city outer bypass ;)


  • #164
    Rob A. Bank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Rob A. Bank


    Mirabile Dictu !

    The Burren Mont is being repainted... not sure if it is to do with a general cleanup of Salthill for the VOR or perhaps it may even be re-opening.

    (Forgot to see if the abandoned car around the side is still there)

    Too bad they don't repaint that Baily Point monstrosity next door too. It's a disgrace.


  • #165
    Das Kitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,231 ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    Rob A. Bank wrote: »
    Mirabile Dictu !

    The Burren Mont is being repainted... not sure if it is to do with a general cleanup of Salthill for the VOR or perhaps it may even be re-opening.

    (Forgot to see if the abandoned car around the side is still there)

    Too bad they don't repaint that Baily Point monstrosity next door too. It's a disgrace.

    WHAT?!

    Where's An Taisce when you need them?


  • #166
    TheCosmicFrog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭TheCosmicFrog


    Rob A. Bank wrote: »
    Mirabile Dictu !

    The Burren Mont is being repainted... not sure if it is to do with a general cleanup of Salthill for the VOR or perhaps it may even be re-opening.

    I think I'm actually slightly disappointed. Also at the fact that the curtains are now pulled in there.


  • #167
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,233 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    Das Kitty wrote: »
    Where's An Taisce when you need them?
    I stashed a few rare bats in the Burrenmount a couple of years ago to keep that lot busy and the feckers moved out to the car. :p


  • #168
    ladhrann
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭ladhrann


    :p
    Das Kitty wrote: »
    WHAT?!

    Where's An Taisce when you need them?


    Its not a listed building and neither is it in an Area of Architectural Conservation. Also as it is not derelict there is no influence that any temporal power has over it.


  • #169
    Das Kitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,231 ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    ladhrann wrote: »
    :p


    Its not a listed building and neither is it in an Area of Architectural Conservation. Also as it is not derelict there is no influence that any temporal power has over it.

    Oi!

    Wait, what? Temporal power?

    Is that a Delorean under the sheet outside?


  • #170
    chris1970
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 637 ✭✭✭chris1970


    funny they built the road around the blue mazda at the side of the burren mount , you would need to hoist it out of where it lay, the bould gabby's i do believe, i will ask him the next time i see him, maybe in the bently as tis opening up again..
    ......now where's that fleck suit & them white slip ons :)


  • #171
    thesandeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,353 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    You don't need the Bently for those treads. Just head down the back to Francies 21 Club*.




    *mind your head.


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  • #172
    brainache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭brainache


    imag0469e.jpg

    The Burren Mount last night....


  • #173
    Robbo
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,662 Mod ✭✭✭✭Robbo


    There's an exhibition in the Arts Festival programme that has paintings of the Burren Mount as one of it's components.


  • #174
    ladhrann
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭ladhrann


    Das Kitty wrote: »
    Oi!

    Wait, what? Temporal power?

    Earthly power, or in this case administrative sanction.


  • #175
    ciano1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,157 ✭✭✭ciano1


    It really does look like the set of a porno!


  • #176
    dinneenp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,319 ✭✭✭dinneenp


    "They live"


  • #177
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    ciano1 wrote: »
    It really does look like the set of a porno!
    I got a quick mental blast of Damien from Iced Earth when I saw the photo to be honest.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRCrbRcSRxc


  • #178
    MyNameis.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭MyNameis.com


    Interesting thread! i'm not from galway myself but allways was curious about Burren Mount, it's like a window to the past and would be great tokeep it that way, instead of turning it into another faceless plastic hotel!


  • #179
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    MyNameis.com wrote: »
    Interesting thread! i'm not from galway myself but allways was curious about Burren Mount, it's like a window to the past and would be great tokeep it that way, instead of turning it into another faceless plastic hotel!
    It is a faceless plastic hotel. It just happens to be a faceless plastic hotel from the 1970s.


  • #180
    MyNameis.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭MyNameis.com


    Doc Ruby wrote: »
    It is a faceless plastic hotel. It just happens to be a faceless plastic hotel from the 1970s.

    LOL...True but still be nice to keep a reminder of 70s style in case we ever think about reviving the building style! :D


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  • #181
    ian 21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 ✭ian 21


    Is the interest in the burren mount gone seems like everyone has giving up on trying to get a look at in side.


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