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Burren Mount Hotel, Salthill

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  • #202
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Maybe one day. The owners wants it to be regarded as a private residence for the foreseeable future. See post #153.


  • #203
    Fiona_242
    Registered Users Posts: 38 ✭Fiona_242


    The owner does have the right to refuse and has the right to be respected at this time, as it now considered a private residents. If they took the signs down it would take allot of the attention away from the building but since the signs are left in place it seems to lure people and fascinate them!


  • #204
    Fiona_242
    Registered Users Posts: 38 ✭Fiona_242


    Bailey Point is horrible and disgrace of a building with no style or concept! How the Galway County Council allowed to go to plan is beyond me!


  • #205
    jkforde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭jkforde


    walked past the BM earlier and was amazed and amused to see that the car down the lane has been boarded up! now it looks like some kind of cheap abstract art... why don't they just dump it? strange days indeed momma!

    🌦️ 6.7kwp, 45°, SSW, mid-Galway 🌦️

    "Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope." Irving Layton



  • #206
    TheCosmicFrog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭TheCosmicFrog


    jkforde wrote: »
    walked past the BM earlier and was amazed and amused to see that the car down the lane has been boarded up! now it looks like some kind of cheap abstract art... why don't they just dump it? strange days indeed momma!


    That seems bizarre indeed! You didn't manage to grab a photo, did you?


  • #207
    Notch000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,473 ✭✭✭Notch000


    I did !!!

    DSC_0383.jpg

    The carpenter was probably stoned he did a pretty good job

    Would be good to paint up

    RAT.jpg

    Cant imagine that mazada will ever turn a wheel again


  • #208
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    Sweet lord!

    Brilliant.


  • #209
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    coffin-car-01.jpg


  • #210
    2rkehij30qtza5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭2rkehij30qtza5


    That's nuts!! The car boarded up, what next?!! There used to be a nightclub or disco in Burren Mount back in my parents hey-days.


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  • #211
    thesandeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,773 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    Iris Wide Gown wrote: »
    That's nuts!! The car boarded up, what next?!! There used to be a nightclub or disco in Burren Mount back in my parents hey-days.

    Yip. At the side underneath. Used to be called 'Francies 21 Club'.
    It reopened temporarily as the Festival Club for the Arts Festival when it started to grow legs. First place I saw The Hothouse Flowers when Maria Doyle (Kennedy) was with them.
    The sweat would pour off you once you tried to get from the door to the bar and if you tried to do any kind of jumpin you would split your head off the roof.

    Brilliant craic though :-) and no trouble.


  • #212
    foxy_19-89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 489 ✭✭foxy_19-89


    Would make a great speakeasy club now!.......


  • #213
    Fiona_242
    Registered Users Posts: 38 ✭Fiona_242


    Love the old time pictures that were posted about the Burren Mount Hotel. Really lovely to see how Salthill was back in the days.


  • #214
    charlie_says
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭charlie_says


    I wonder how large the private residence part is? It's a quite large building as it goes back a good bit from the seafront. Anyway leave them to it I say....


  • #215
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    thesandeman wrote: »
    Yip. At the side underneath. Used to be called 'Francies 21 Club'.
    It reopened temporarily as the Festival Club for the Arts Festival when it started to grow legs. First place I saw The Hothouse Flowers when Maria Doyle (Kennedy) was with them.
    The sweat would pour off you once you tried to get from the door to the bar and if you tried to do any kind of jumpin you would split your head off the roof.

    Brilliant craic though :-) and no trouble.


    was that the burren mount or the building that was beside it - Mcpeaks/twiggs.


  • #216
    thesandeman
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    Burrenmount. The little flat roofed bit attached to the left of it.


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  • #217
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    thesandeman wrote: »
    Burrenmount. The little flat roofed bit attached to the left of it.

    ah right, I must have been thinking of the building to the right of it with the steps up to it


  • #218
    Fiona_242
    Registered Users Posts: 38 ✭Fiona_242


    Why was it named the Burren Mount, was it named after the Burren in Co. Clare? Leave it to them, people would be less interested if they took the signs away. I would hate to live in such an place to be honest you can't beat your own back garden on a lovely day!


  • #219
    Notch000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,473 ✭✭✭Notch000


    Fiona_242 wrote: »
    Why was it named the Burren Mount, was it named after the Burren in Co. Clare? Leave it to them, people would be less interested if they took the signs away. I would hate to live in such an place to be honest you can't beat your own back garden on a lovely day!

    you can see the burren directly accrross the bay out of the front window


  • #220
    TheCosmicFrog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭TheCosmicFrog


    thesandeman wrote: »
    Burrenmount. The little flat roofed bit attached to the left of it.

    Which bit is that? The Bon Bon shop?


  • #221
    thesandeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,773 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    Yep. The 'club' part used along the back. Think there was some kind of funfair stuff there as well? A bit of the sign was still hanging there until relatively recently.
    Not sure what's there now. I never bother to take any notice to be honest.


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  • #222
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    thesandeman wrote: »
    Yep. The 'club' part used along the back. Think there was some kind of funfair stuff there as well? A bit of the sign was still hanging there until relatively recently.
    Not sure what's there now. I never bother to take any notice to be honest.

    Yeah, there was the camel racing there and some target shoot. It's like a little carpark. Saw the coffin as I was passing on my way home last week. :)


  • #223
    saabsaab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,241 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    I remember being at a party in the Burren Mount around 1970 (may have been a launch/opening). My Uncle was invited and we came with him remember lots of drink. Great view from the top windows. Seemed v modern at the time.


  • #224
    SnakePlissken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭SnakePlissken


    Notch000 wrote: »
    I did !!!

    DSC_0383.jpg

    Sorry for resurrecting this thread but that car can't still be there surely :)


  • #225
    wily minx
    Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭wily minx


    No, it's gone.


  • #226
    nuac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,769 ✭✭✭nuac


    ronnie3585 wrote: »
    I had forgotten about The Rio. While the Burren Mount is creepy, The Rio is just plain greasy. Gotta love the giant mirror and sexy yellow mood lighting at the front counter. Would love to see inside the rooms, they probably have shag pile carpets, stained velvet sheets and some nice 9 carat gold fixtures, greasy!


    I recall a relative staying in the RIO c 1959. Fine hotel then, well run by the McGurks


  • #227
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Yea.

    Very odd to see the car gone now!


  • #228
    Sirci123
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭Sirci123


    This thread is so funny because you make it sound all mysterious and a guy might or might not be living there and there are lights and tvs on lol. The mystery person is just Gabby, Francie's bodyguard basically. Gabby was my mums boyfriend for about 5 years when I was 8 so I knew him really well and was in the Burren many times. Gabby got me a dove and he lived in the back of the Burren. Saw him a few years ago and he hadn't changed a bit. He was a character alright but was always so good to me.


  • #229
    Arghus
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    The plot thickens.


  • #230
    whitelightrider
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    Are there any images of inside the hotel? It literally looks like time has stood still for it.


  • #231
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    There was no image from the hotel rooms from back in the day when I last searched years ago.

    These days it's a private residence.


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  • #232
    whitelightrider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,100 ✭✭✭whitelightrider


    biko wrote: »
    There was no image from the hotel rooms from back in the day when I last searched years ago.

    These days it's a private residence.

    Thanks Biko, and apologies for ressurecting an old thread. Just one of those really intriguing buildings :)


  • #233
    hoolie61
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭hoolie61


    Hi, was just wondering does anyone know when / why the hotel closed ? I believe my uncle had a wedding here sometime in the late 70s. Would like to know more of the history of the place


  • #234
    saabsaab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,241 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    The family who ran it were from originally from Roscommon and known to my Uncle who lived in roscommon. By all accounts it was a popular place in its day.


  • #235
    fitzy1982
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭fitzy1982


    Sirci123 wrote: »
    This thread is so funny because you make it sound all mysterious and a guy might or might not be living there and there are lights and tvs on lol. The mystery person is just Gabby, Francie's bodyguard basically. Gabby was my mums boyfriend for about 5 years when I was 8 so I knew him really well and was in the Burren many times. Gabby got me a dove and he lived in the back of the Burren. Saw him a few years ago and he hadn't changed a bit. He was a character alright but was always so good to me.

    Interesting 🤔could you dm me


  • #236
    gordongekko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭gordongekko


    fitzy1982 wrote: »
    Interesting 🤔could you dm me

    Weirdest post here in a long time


  • #237
    fitzy1982
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭fitzy1982


    gordongekko wrote: »
    Weirdest post here in a long time
    Lol


  • #238
    Whereisgalway
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,470 ✭✭✭Whereisgalway


    This thread is about to be closed


  • #239
    saabsaab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,241 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Fair enough. Gone as far as it could.


  • #240
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Wig, stop moderating


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  • #241
    Whereisgalway
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,470 ✭✭✭Whereisgalway


    I’d imagine it was a impressive hotel back in the day


  • #242
    leocullensface
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 28 ✭leocullensface


    Think I stayed in this hotel years and years ago. We had a lovely cup of tea and a walk on the prom


  • #243
    Whereisgalway
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,470 ✭✭✭Whereisgalway


    leocullensface wrote: »
    Think I stayed in this hotel years and years ago. We had a lovely cup of tea and a walk on the prom

    Class, I like stories like this


  • #244
    leocullensface
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 28 ✭leocullensface


    Whereisgalway wrote: »
    Class, I like stories like this

    Your welcome


  • #245
    whitelightrider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,100 ✭✭✭whitelightrider


    Its an impressive site, even now. Would love to see the inside of the hotel.


  • #246
    leocullensface
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 28 ✭leocullensface


    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 colour?


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  • #247
    westgolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 831 ✭✭✭westgolf


    leocullensface wrote: »
    What colour?

    As the quoted post references VOR (Volvo ocean race) methinks it's a bit late in replying.


  • #248
    leocullensface
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 28 ✭leocullensface


    westgolf wrote: »
    As the quoted post references VOR (Volvo ocean race) methinks it's a bit late in replying.

    Relying to me? I’m a wee bit lost


  • #249
    westgolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 831 ✭✭✭westgolf


    leocullensface wrote: »
    Relying to me? I’m a wee bit lost

    T' was yourself who wondered" what color ?" in answer to a quite dated post and I was just pointing out the datedness of the original post and your response.


  • #250
    leocullensface
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 28 ✭leocullensface


    westgolf wrote: »
    T' was yourself who wondered" what color ?" in answer to a quite dated post and I was just pointing out the datedness of the original post and your response.

    Thanks I figure it all out eventually the


  • #251
    monstermag
    Registered Users Posts: 201 ✭✭monstermag


    Maureen Donahue wife of Francie died July 2019. There son Austin is also deceased. Maria is the only one left now.
    Anyone know if Gabby is still around?


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