{"id":813,"date":"2026-03-02T22:44:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/?p=813"},"modified":"2026-03-02T22:44:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:44:57","slug":"grattan-road-grattan-lodge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/grattan-road-grattan-lodge\/","title":{"rendered":"Grattan Road (Grattan Lodge)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/grattan-lodge-1024x563.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/grattan-lodge-1024x563.png 1024w, https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/grattan-lodge-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/grattan-lodge-768x422.png 768w, https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/grattan-lodge-1200x660.png 1200w, https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/grattan-lodge.png 1262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Grattan Lodge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The house was built on Grattan Road Beach. Some people referred to it as Moon Lodge or Sand House for obvious reasons. Different families and individuals lived in the house over the years. One man who lived there for a time was Jack Ward; he later moved to Shantalla and eventually lived in Corrib Park. It seems that there is a vegetable garden beside the house. The end came for the house as a dwelling on Saturday, 16 September 1961, when \u2018Hurricane Debbie\u2019 paid her unwelcome visit to the city. The house was destroyed by the hurricane floodwaters, and the family had to seek shelter with friends or neighbours. The building quickly became derelict. The Red Cross (Galway) subsequently used the building for training. However, the building became a victim of neglect, weather and the power of the sea, and eventually it disappeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The house was built on Grattan Road Beach. Some people referred to it as Moon Lodge or Sand House for obvious reasons. Different families and individuals lived in the house over the years. One man who lived there for a time was Jack Ward; he later moved to Shantalla and eventually lived in Corrib Park. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/grattan-road-grattan-lodge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grattan Road (Grattan Lodge)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[273,272,274],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-galway","tag-grattan-lodge","tag-grattan-road","tag-jack-ward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}