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Horseshoe House, Galway
It is common enough even today to see old forge buildings with horseshoe shaped doorways but nowhere else have I seen windows in this style.
If you are travelling through the streets of Galway you may well spot this unusual house with its horseshoe-shaped windows.
The quirky building was owned by horse-mad local man Michael Cunniss who spoke with Ireland’s national broadcaster RTE in 1982.
A man before his time, Michael complained to the RTE reporter about the “…smelly old cars going along the road…” and he even kept a horse in the house that could watch TV through a hatch in to the living room.
It is common enough even today to see old forge buildings with horseshoe shaped doorways but nowhere else have I seen windows in this style.
Have you seen this house, or another similar?
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