While I was in Mayo for The Last Woodland Walk, I stopped in Balinrobe to visit the Harry Clarke windows at St. Mary’s again. As I walked to the center of town, I noticed this archway.
That sign says “public library” but there’s a letter missing, so I wondered if it really was still the library.
A wooded path….
And a Church of Ireland! With a monument to literature instead of Jesus!
Inside: the library!
The windows, the pulpit, the monuments to the dead: all remain. I didn’t take many photographs, it seemed blasphemous in such a sacred place.
If they can turn one church into a library, why not them all?
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