2-798-834 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Ballinasloe, 1845. Market-place in Ballinasloe, a town in the west of Ireland. 'Though a small place, it is one of the most prosperous towns in the county of Galway. Ballinasloe is a handsome town, and is singularly neat and clean, owing to the constant solicitude of the noble owner, Viscount Dunlo. The streets are paved, the houses well kept, and the cottages neatly thatched and whitewashed. The church is an elegant stone structure, and the market-place...much resembles that of an English town: would that such scenes were less rare in Ireland'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.