It was now Friday, and I planned to take a day trip out to Ballinasloe, a township in the easternmost part of County Galway, to visit the site of St Brigid's Hospital, opened in 1833 as the Connacht Lunatic Asylum. St Brigid's is still a functioning psychiatric hospital. Main Street, Ballinasloe The walk from Ballinasloe… Continue reading Day Three In Galway: Ballinasloe
Month: March 2017
Day One In Galway
I had started to develop a head cold on my second day in Dublin, and when I woke on my first morning in Galway found that it was worsening into chest congestion as well. After my worldwind introduction with Laura the previous afternoon, she had given me a lift to the nearby shopping centre on… Continue reading Day One In Galway
