A photograph of Saint Patrick’s church on Forster Street in Galway. The church has a magnificent high bell tower, and about a third of the way up this tower, there is an ornate statue of Saint Patrick. There are metal railings in front of the church, and the church has a metal front gate. There are statues of angels on the pillars of the gate. There is a streetlight near the gate, and electrical wires run from it to a pole in the church grounds. Interestingly, there is also a second streetlight post, which would suggest that the second photo below predates this particular one about. The church was built in 1872 and replaced in 1972 by a new church located directly to the right of the old buildings.
The second photo is similar in nature. However, there are a number of minor subtle differences. A thatch cottage is visible to the right of the front gate, the angels are missing from the pillars, and the streetlamp is of a different design, but there is evidence of this in the first photo. Interestingly, a similar streetlamp to the one in the second photo exists to this day on Prospect Hill, outside the business premises of Keane Mahony-Smith. The horizontal iron crossbar is where the lamp-lighter placed his ladder while lighting the lamp.