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With President Biden of the USA going to visit the West of Ireland tomorrow and using Air Force One to do a pilgrimage to Knock an aerial shot from Connacht seemed appropriate. Sadly the shot we had available is of the Galway Golf Club rather than one in Ballina but Connacht is a province with balance, until it comes to the Connacht Championship, and the lovely county of Galway needs a wee look in as well:-D

Photographer: Alexander Campbell “Monkey” Morgan

Collection: Morgan Aerial Photographic Collection

Date: ca. 1954 -1957

NLI Ref: NPA MOR162

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    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

    • 13/Apr/2023 07:47:49

    Rebuilt? Google Maps satellite 3D view - www.google.com/maps/place/Galway+Golf+Club/@53.2619151,-9...

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    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

    • 13/Apr/2023 07:57:08

    www.galwaygolf.com/ has a "Flyover" to rival Monkey's. www.top100golfcourses.com/golf-course/galway has a short history.

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    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

    • 13/Apr/2023 08:05:46

    Compressed Air !! - goo.gl/maps/j8uNka1pQSCct5759

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    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

    • 13/Apr/2023 08:11:09

    Google Maps has a 'high up' googlesphere which is interesting. Reverse view - goo.gl/maps/1m7Che53aPHgjYCu8

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    O Mac

    • 13/Apr/2023 09:16:42

    That little stream in the middle of the photograph is named on the OSI 25" map as the "Sruffaunmalla" , meaning Mally's streamlet. places.galwaylibrary.ie/place/11773

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    John Spooner

    • 13/Apr/2023 09:25:52

    Well before Monkey's time, in November 1900 the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News had an illustrated feature on the then-young club, with this introduction. Only 9 holes then.

    G A L W A Y GOLF CLUB. THE Galway Golf Club links, situated within easy reach of the far-famed "Citie of the Tribes," is one of the most popular in Ireland. The course, a nine-hole one, is beautifully situated on a promontory over looking Galway Bay. It is particularly sporting, and so "cute" and trappy that a good straight drive is needed, else the player will find himself in trouble, the hazards being numerous and varied, consisting of stone walls, quarries, sandy banks, and gorse.
    The imaginary player in the text may have been a "he", but there are several "shes" in the feature's accompanying photographs

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    John Spooner

    • 13/Apr/2023 09:37:45

    The club had to move not long after the 1900 publicity. Galway Express - Saturday 25 January 1908

    THE GALWAY GOLF CLUB. (From "Golfing.") The new of the Galway Golf Club, at Ballyshandoff, some two miles outside the quaint old "Clue of the Tribes," though only laid out two year. ago, is now in splendid order, and the promoters are to be congratulated on the attending their efforts to provide the golfers of Galway with such a sporting links to take the place of the fames Gentian Hill green, of which they were rather suddenly deprived, on account of its grazing value. Good golfing ground being extremely difficult to obtain round Galway, it seemed for a time as if the game would have to be abandoned there.
    but still 9 holes

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    John Spooner

    • 13/Apr/2023 09:50:56

    The 1906 course seems to have been at Bearna, and ay some time before 1931 the club must have moved again, because an obituary in that year contains the text "he was a member of the old committee of the Galway Golf Club, when the links were at Bearna". (Midland Counties Advertiser - Thursday 15 January 1931)

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    Niall McAuley

    • 13/Apr/2023 11:54:48

    The Cassini 6" shows this house as Golf Club, surveyed in the 1930s. The 1900ish 25" calls the house West Lodge, no Golf reference. No Golf Course at either Gentian Hill or Bearna on the 25" as far as I can see.

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    Niall McAuley

    • 13/Apr/2023 11:58:50

    I don't see a Ballyshandoff in Galway, but there is a small townland called Shanballyduff near Bearna per the OSI. And look what I see there now: in Streetview, a residential road there called The Links.

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    John Spooner

    • 13/Apr/2023 12:10:35

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley I've checked the article and it says "Ballyshanduff" The -doff rather than -duff was the result of OCR trying to interpret smudged print, but the swapping of the first 2 syllables of the name was (I speculate) a mistake by the writer of the article in "Golfing" magazine (Gertude Crowe, to name and shame her) who probably had no local knowledge, and her article was copied and pasted by the Galway Express without any proofreading. Possibly.

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    John Spooner

    • 13/Apr/2023 12:25:45

    The history page on the club's website says the club president 1905-1908 was Honourable Robert Edward Dillon of Clonbrock. A quick search of the catalogue turned up CLON1858 - "Man () with pipe leaning on metal rail and a golf club upside down with one foot on steps to house"

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    O Mac

    • 13/Apr/2023 13:11:30

    John Spooner That is Louis Meldon standing outside his house at 31 Ailesbury Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin. His connection to the Dillons is unclear...... he also played tennis, cricket and sailed racing dingies. maps.app.goo.gl/TntpiwKRGaGbKjdF7 www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/33819500601/in/photolist-...

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    Niall McAuley

    • 13/Apr/2023 13:23:45

    There is no Golf Course in Shanballyduff on the 1930s Cassini map, but there is a Pavilion, roughly where the front garden of 18 Westbrook is today. I think the entrance to the Golf Course there would have been where there is still a waste patch on the Barna road: Streetview

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    suckindeesel

    • 13/Apr/2023 20:12:35

    [https://www.flickr.com/photos/30369211@N00/] “Chapter 1 Renmore Dealing with the foundation of the club in 1895 at it's initial location on the grounds of Renmore barracks and it's move to a new site on Gentian Hill shortly afterwards. Chapter 2 Barna 1905-1925 In 1905 Galway Golf Club moved from a small site at Gentian Hill to a more substantial site a couple of miles away in Barna. The club remained here until 1925. Chapter 3 The O’Hara Estate In the post war years, the strong influence of the military and ascendancy class diminished considerably and the club was now governed by business people, bankers, government officials and members of the professional bodies. Chapter 4 Ladies Golf and Galway 1895-1995 By Kitty O'Riordan This chapter deals with the valued contribution that the ladies of Galway Golf Club have made to the Club and to the national golf scene. Chapter 5 Bob Wallace Bob Wallace, uncle of our Pro until 2011; Don Wallace, was a legend in Irish golf circles. Here John Cunningham paints a colourful portrait of the affable character who was the Club Professional in Galway Golf Club from 1946-1973 Chapter 6 The O'Connor Clan Two of Irish golf's most successful and well-known Pros must be the 'Two Christys'; Christy O'Connor Snr. and his nephew Christy O'Connor Jnr. who grew up within a wedge of the seventh tee. Go here to read about their remarkable achievements. Chapter 7 Modern Times: 1950-1995 A synopsis of the Club's development from 1950 1995 (the year of our centenary).” www.galwaygolf.com/galway-golf-course-history.php More detail on their site by clicking each heading