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The Galway Electric Light Company was set up by James Perry, an engineer and County Surveyor of the Western District of Galway, and his brother, Professor John Perry, to generate electricity. On November 1, 1888, they applied for permission from the Galway Town Commissioners to ‘erect poles in some parts of the town as an experiment for the electric lighting of the town’. The company had established a generating station at Newtownsmith in an old flour mill which had existed since the 1600s and straddled the Friar’s River. They installed a hydroelectric turbine in the watercourse which was linked to a generator producing alternating current.

Galway City Council with the support of An Garda Siochána and schools in Galway City, have recently introduced ‘School Zones’ measures at 15 schools in the City. The purpose of the spots and road markings is to raise awareness among road users that they are entering an environment where there is a school – and to encourage awareness of children and other road users, and slower speeds.

Over the last six weeks the team of sales agents and marketers in O’Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers have been busy compiling information and generating adverts for the 62 lots that they will offer for sale by means of live public auction tomorrow at 12 noon in the Harbour Hotel in Galway city.

O’Donnellan & Joyce has agents all over the country both this week and next conducting open viewings on a list of more than 50 properties for sale in its Wild Atlantic midsummer auction on Friday July 19. The auction will commence at 12 noon sharp in The Harbour Hotel, New Dock Road, Galway, with registration open from 11am.

The team at O’Donnellan & Joyce are busy with viewings and inquiries for their list of more than 50 properties for sale in the Wild Atlantic midsummer auction on Friday July 19. The auction will commence at 12 noon sharp in The Harbour Hotel, New Dock Road, Galway, with registration open from 11am.

Following the success of its June auction, O’Donnellan & Joyce is back with its fourth property auction for 2019, with a number of great properties going under the hammer on July 19.

O'Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers is offering to the market three excellent properties located in Galway city centre. These properties are for sale by private treaty and viewing is highly recommended. They would be ideal owner occupier residences or gilt edged investments.

The Columban Hall is described as a bizarre high-Victorian building with a gabled facade of opus incertum with a small porch, polychrome arches to the windows, a star shaped west window, and a curious chunky top-knot. It was originally built as a Congregational Church, designed by Raffles Brown and completed in 1863. Our photograph (courtesy of the National Library) was taken just a few years later.

O’Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers sold a record number of properties in its July auction. Colm O’Donnellan of O’Donnellan & Joyce had a vast number of Galway properties, with huge interest from both investors and owner occupiers.

O’Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers went into the auction room last Friday for the fourth time this year and with its biggest catalogue to date. Starting with 67 properties, 64 went under the hammer. The all-day auction was separated into two sessions, one in the morning and a second session after lunch.