{"id":901,"date":"2026-05-26T22:41:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/?p=901"},"modified":"2026-05-26T23:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:10:06","slug":"st-patricks-parish-church-forster-street-galway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/st-patricks-parish-church-forster-street-galway\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old St Patrick’s Parish Church"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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.<\/p>\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading “The Old St Patrick’s Parish Church”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[59,23,300],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-galway-photos","category-old-galway","tag-forster-street","tag-st-patricks-parish","tag-st-patricks-parish-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galwaysown.ie\/Galway%20Stories\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}