Castlebar in the early 1900s

The map above shows Castlebar and environs in the early 1900s. Notice features such as the

• Gaol the last remains were only recently removed (1980s) when building the new hospital
• Union Work House - The Sacred Heart Home is now located here
• R.C. Ch - Roman Catholic Chapel - Church of the Holy Rosary
• Church - Christ Church on the Mall
• The Lawn - Lord Lucan's place - now the Sisters of Mercy Convent and ring road
• Asylum - St. Marys and GMIT
• Midland and Great Western Railway - Iarnrod Eireann still chugging up and down along this, thank God
• Corn Mill at Ballynew - now Frank Ward's N5 Tyres
• Church at Ballynew - nothing much left now apart from the remains of a wall or two although there is an intact graveyard still there and it is still a place of pilgrimage
• Newantrim - out the Pontoon Road - hence Newantrim Street
• Race Course - out the Ballinrobe Road past Saleen - what's the story about this?