The only house in the estate with a second set of gates; marbles and rounders on the road Watch from 04:11

His father’s line when offered a cigarette: if God wanted you to smoke he’d have put a chimney in your head Watch from 37:30

1994 Cars beeping after the intermediate county final; out the sunroof of a red BMW. Watch from 07:18

On the way up to Assylin; church lane. Sensitive, see verification. Watch from 24:28

Dick McGee photographed shop fronts at eight in the morning: “that’s Boyle” Watch from 22:44

The road out to Kilty Creighton school. Watch from 18:13

Dubliners once thought Boyle was just the Forest Park Hotel, the church and the Abbey Watch from 59:18

Brought in around 2002; he feels it divided the town Watch from 57:16

“Couldn’t wait to get out at lunch to get down the town and see what had happened.” Watch from 03:23

Grew up over the family shop when every premises was open and every family lived upstairs Watch from 03:14

Brendan McGee could hear Saturday night at the Royal start up from his window Watch from 33:14

The horses’ delivery route through a busy market town Watch from 06:09

Her parents built the house in 1965 or 66; playing in the fields with frogspawn and collecting rose hips for the nuns Watch from 00:32

Street league team. Watch from 06:50

Where the Regans were, Annie’s people. Watch from 07:16

Where the church and school used to be. Watch from 24:59

Had a team in the street leagues. Watch from 04:51

Open fields in 1966, estate built later behind Upper Marion Road. Watch from 05:55

Where Joe was reared. “Long, hot summers and very few rainy days that I can remember.” Watch from 00:23

Rugby rivals of Termon and Plunkett Avenue; told “this is our land” at Assylin Watch from 25:26

One of the estates the shop served. Street league team. Watch from 00:59

The first sign of the 2040 plan’s riverside public spaces. Watch from 04:20

Where he meets Pádraic Muldoon for a chat now. Watch from 26:32

Homecoming after the 2022 county final, the truck and the music. Watch from 1:50:20

His mother’s home; certificates found in a box in the loft in 2000. Watch from 24:16

Huge crowds for the All-Ireland Fleadh in Boyle, 1966. Watch from 21:15

fair day Dealers gathered at about 12 o’clock. Watch from 15:31

The festival’s finale night, and a Blind Date set up with a Donegal contestant from the TV show Watch from 48:10

Built in the King family’s time, part of the structure they gave the town Watch from 23:25

gala festival stage Strange But True played on a lorry lit by car headlights until a van drove through the power cable Watch from 44:18

Part of what makes it “such a cute little Irish town” Watch from 00:39

The protest and the petition stall; 3,207 signatures in four days, and German visitors won over Watch from 04:56

around the bridge “Just stuck to the downtown, more or less around the bridge.” Watch from 22:16

The lane behind the Patrick Street row, down to the Shambles yard. Cosgrove’s coffins and hearse were kept in a shed across it. Watch from 04:26

His home growing up, a hundred yards from the station’s back door. His mother kept lodgers here. Watch from 00:33

Home of Pat Spellman. Watch from 31:07

Old photos show a sharp bend, straightened when the garage was moved back 25 feet so the road ran straight to the station Watch from 03:23

Both sets of grandparents lived two doors apart, beside where Vincent Egan’s is Watch from 02:02

top of Green Street Cattle driven up past the shops on fair days, hoarding over the windows. Watch from 56:37

top of the Green Monthly fair days and a day off school; unsold cattle came down the town Watch from 13:30

Walking out it during Covid with five or six friends, shouted at from passing cars Watch from 31:18

Kerbs in the wrong place or blocked by parked vans; the new crossings help Watch from 56:12

“We didn’t do anything else but play sports.” Grew up on the green, playing all day and night. Watch from 01:26

Minded after school for a few years by Mary Conroy. Watch from 02:23

One of the estate teams in the street leagues. Watch from 01:01

Bonfire rivals of Churchview Watch from 42:17

Forty happy years there: “we never had a cross word with anyone” Watch from 06:14

Street league team. Watch from 06:50

One of the bag women’s weekly routes into the country. Watch from 14:59

Where he grew up, in a sport mad house Watch from 00:46

“From Gannon’s corner” for characters. Watch from 33:39

Where he found himself at five in the morning. Watch from 34:00

Annie and Dudley moved to a house up the Green. Watch from 14:31

Forest View Football, tag and hanging around with the Harveys and his Conboy cousins. Watch from 02:23

fair green The earlier fair on fair days. Watch from 15:31

Sliding down on drink trays in the snow, go-karts in summer, and John Reilly the tinsmith on the footpath near the top. Watch from 22:07

Where she first practised in Boyle, on certain days of the week Watch from 08:21

Where his shop has been since 1993, among buildings empty all that time Watch from 51:06

The Ninja Club in balaclavas, knocking on doors and running Watch from 02:46

One time the funfair was set up there Watch from 29:58

Christie photographed them going up: “if your shop closes, take a photograph of that” Watch from 39:06

Open fields in 1966, estate built later behind Upper Marion Road. Watch from 05:55

The King family home, with a shop in the front room from around 1979 to 1995. Watch from 00:08

Where Ruth grew up. “They all had loads of kids.” Watch from 00:16

You could spend two hours on that walk just talking to people Watch from 46:12

beside McNamara’s and King House The lane by the river Noel walked home from school. Watch from 50:44

“On Main Street, they have their backs to the river.” Watch from 03:50

at its narrowest point Willie had a bicycle shop and a petrol pump right in the middle of the street; a 1946 photo shows the pumps Watch from 02:20

Once the busiest shopping street and the hub of the town; now improving Watch from 13:22

Bunting up all over the town before the 2022 county final. Watch from 1:42:43

Possibly in with Churchview in the street leagues. Watch from 04:57

Finish line of the bike race from the boys’ school, where everyone split up for home. Watch from 10:24

Oliver Fallon’s memory of the 1970 World Cup (Carlo). Watch from 10:09

One of the estate teams in the street leagues. Watch from 01:01

The Regan family, where he could have stayed Watch from 12:17

Home of Sean Kenny, later lead guitarist with the Swarbriggs Watch from 23:48

The family home Watch from 18:36

Where the family found a house on arriving in 1966; the old barracks was just behind Watch from 09:41

Older neighbours from lower Marion Road used the shop. “Marion Road where I was from.” Street league team. Watch from 00:59

In 1947 the men dug a trench from there to get coffins out to Assylin; no train got into Boyle for weeks Watch from 09:52

near Michael Archer’s Little low houses buried in snow in the blizzard. Watch from 01:01:13

top of Green Street Tar bubbles on the walk home, washed off with margarine. Watch from 08:24

His grandfather’s office; the passage also mentions the antique shop and the Abbey Bar. Needs checking. Watch from 1:33:00

The walk to school, picking up others along the way. Watch from 18:13

Carlo notes dilapidated buildings around Patrick Street and Main Street. Watch from 12:25

Where he grew up: rolling in the mud, climbing trees and breaking bones Watch from 01:58

Where his parents moved, leaving the Deerpark house free for recording Watch from 46:55

Seems very desolate to her now Watch from 13:52

Her partner’s mother offered the downstairs of her building for their tattoo shop, and they moved to Boyle Watch from 04:48

Had a team in the street leagues. Watch from 04:51

Children came to watch Sissy fed; the rabbit’s territory for three years. Watch from 31:45

Rounders in the playground at the back, a tennis racket for a bat, and Red Rover with the lads Watch from 24:43

Football every evening after school, though other lads were always better Watch from 00:16

Where he grew up alongside Aidan Scanlon, who also showed him a few chords Watch from 03:39

Winter football with bits of wood for goals and a shout of “Car”. Watch from 03:03

The house Bernie was born in. Name not recovered. “That road is not there now.” Watch from 00:20

Johnny Reilly cycled it with his chimney brushes, singing. Watch from 11:58

past Carty’s garage No footpath for people walking behind the hearse; the riverside on the left is badly neglected Watch from 22:50

Giving drivers directions while thumbing a lift home after Cleo’s Watch from 32:00

The bag women’s other weekly route. Watch from 14:59

Where Mr Hanratty came from, walking his donkey Marmaduke and cart along the Carrick Road Watch from 07:08

Where Paddy Byrne kept the Rolls Royce taxi that also did funerals. Name not recovered. Watch from 08:39

the Green Hard times in houses like Dublin tenements, where Christy Regan lived Watch from 23:24

Where Paddy Perry’s mother lived, before her last days with the family on Marian Road Watch from 18:36

The rabbit ate cabbages all the way up; side wall of the corner house. Watch from 32:59

Once full of children; at Halloween Mrs Flynn handed out homemade queen cakes Watch from 27:07

Every gate was a goal; Lee McKillen a genius; street leagues against Forest View and Church View, and they bought Damien Dooley for a week Watch from 30:00

Town has kept its eighties look; “park a few old cars along the streets”. Watch from 36:24

Families once on every street; many houses now derelict. Street names not recovered. Watch from 40:17

Raised by her grandparents among aunts and cousins; neighbours who looked out for each other, playing out till ten Watch from 00:25

Growing up outside all the time with his brother Jared, on bikes and playing football; chapped lips Watch from 09:26

Had a team in the street leagues. Watch from 04:51

Home for 17 years; friends moved in nearby. Watch from 19:57

One of the estate teams in the street leagues. Watch from 01:01

Home of the gang: rounders every day, hares and hounds, marbles; now you’d hardly know children lived there Watch from 23:56

His granny lived there, so much of his childhood was spent around it Watch from 00:16

From number 13 to number 23 for the extra bedroom; a lovely place for kids, full of big families Watch from 00:21

Street league team. Kids from Termon at Assylin. Watch from 06:50

Marbles with the Shanleys, the lads to beat at conkers too Watch from 05:37

The Fallons’ street from 1966; a cul de sac with “the street was our playground”. Watch from 00:00

Where the children sat to watch matches in the Pleasure Ground. Watch from 13:35

Where his grandparents lived, close to his cousin Dave Byrne’s house; miming to music there as kids Watch from 22:55

Renting a house there through Covid, “the happiest, most amazing time” Watch from 41:22

Street hosed down after the fair. Watch from 17:43

First home on returning from England, a house owned by Tom and Bridie Gallagher. Watch from 03:14

Where the family lived after the pub closed Watch from 27:45

beside the boys’ school Lived in the same house all his life, a one minute walk to school Watch from 00:32

Triplets born there, 1736. Watch from 17:25

Ronan’s house, wine evenings, ten minutes from the park. Watch from 60:46

near Cootehall Grew up on the family farm, one of five Watch from 01:30

Home of coal merchant Johnny Keaveney, his neighbour and a great storyteller. Watch from 12:37

Leitrim side of the mountain Home of the flute player John McKenna. Watch from 20:56

Part of the Ballyfarnon football catchment. Watch from 05:48

Another FCA security post Watch from 11:37

Home place; farm and mine side by side, and a community where nobody went underground alone Watch from 00:00

Where his father collected a key and first met Sonny Regan by the fire. Watch from 15:55

Up to ten hours a day swimming; diving competitions off the bridge. Watch from 35:12

Swimming spot in Joe’s childhood summers. Watch from 00:54

Summer days swimming, diving for a bottle of stones, evening barbecues; Lesley’s mother taught them to swim there Watch from 32:28

Fry family mausoleum to the left as you enter; Assylin was once another name for Boyle Watch from 28:27

Where you headed when you got older, for the deeper water; burials there after the 1947 snow Watch from 04:00

above the river A beautiful setting on the hill over the river, nothing like a city graveyard Watch from 15:14

During Covid the lads went down there with a few cans, away from everyone Watch from 28:06

Swimming on long hot summers. Watch from 02:55

A rural, agricultural corner of the Ocean FM patch with very different priorities from Killybegs Watch from 09:50

Came home here after hospital in Scotland Watch from 27:33

Where he’d let lads off on the way home from town. Watch from 24:06

townland Gerry was born here on 23 December 1945 and has lived here since. Watch from 00:53

On the bus route; first whistle lessons with Bernie Flaherty; O’Carolan’s family home. Watch from 04:15

Where they went swimming instead of Doon Shore Watch from 31:03

Where Paul Gralton and his father lived Watch from 43:05

His family background covers all corners of it, across to Frenchpark and South Sligo Watch from 00:51

End of day one, with a massive crowd coming into Battlebridge and through Carrick Watch from 16:48

“Healthy bucolic days and nights in the countryside out in Carnamilte.” Watch from 03:15

Where Christie’s sister Sally moved on marrying Watch from 07:55

Harry Golden’s farm Their home since 2006, at the end of a boreen with nothing but fields and cows Watch from 15:41

Sixteen days without power, after eight days with Storm Darragh Watch from 52:00

Home of the Connollys, connected to the man he plans to give the cup to. Watch from 38:51

about three and a half miles from Boyle Where Niall grew up. “Three and a half miles out the road.” Watch from 00:23

The Goatskin Band played here; later, the Clonloe road protest. Watch from 11:29

Where Jane lives now, beside the lake. Watch from 46:41

Co. Sligo Home since 2003. The calendula is grown, dried and infused here, “seed to jar.” Watch from 01:01

The family’s first home after arriving in Ireland in May 2017, before moving into Boyle Watch from 03:49

Grew up on the family farm “out in the sticks”, feeding and watering cattle after school Watch from 00:23

Her uncle’s house on the far side, on the way to Carrick, first brought her to the area Watch from 01:13

Where he lives now with his wife Grace and their two sons Watch from 08:35

Where he was raised until he was three Watch from 00:13

His electric wheelchair died on the hill on the way back; 10km each way, not in total Watch from 49:42

On the bus route; whistle lessons with Paddy Ryan. Watch from 04:15

His parents bought the pub there around 1973; school was a nightmare after Dublin Watch from 06:48

They had just bought a house there when Covid hit; the best summer of his life Watch from 35:34

townland near Croghan Farm work from about ten; home of Isaac Hall. Name not recovered Watch from 04:35

Where his mother spent some of her childhood, her father stationed there as a guard. Watch from 00:23

Home parish; a rambling house with card players either side, and families pushed up from the plains Watch from 02:43

Where Bernie was born, the son of a herd Watch from 00:20

He knew the people around Crossna and Knockvicar Watch from 08:28

across from McGlynn’s The family home; Joe McGlynn taught him tin whistle and fiddle, and the house later held the Ó No Somalia recordings Watch from 01:59

near Keadue Where Mossie grew up; his parents bought land and built a house there. Album named for it. Watch from 02:41

Where he was born Watch from 00:25

House fire at O’Connor’s. Sensitive, see verification. Watch from 06:41

Where he eventually moved, nearer home Watch from 19:35

Visited people with the cup. Unconfirmed. Watch from 32:28

The other school bus option; later his teaching course since 2006 and the Joe Mooney Summer School. Watch from 04:15

Ten good years as assistant manager Watch from 19:25

Home now with Anne Marie and Sam; the distillery has brought the town on, and the outdoor pool Watch from 41:51

Named in the old song about Ballinulta. Watch from 28:59

His home townland halfway between Boyle and Carrick, near Tullyboy Farm and Cavetown Lake; primary school in Boyle, secondary in Carrick Watch from 00:15

Co. Leitrim Jimmy Gralton was born there in 1886; his mother was left living alone there after his deportation Watch from 27:40

Bonfire nights still held; Gralton passed the bonfire on his way home in 1932 Watch from 41:18

People from Elphin found him at Yonkers Watch from 1:18:03

Bonfires, music and dancing on the road. Watch from 14:54

His grandfather lived next door to old Mr Conroy, another Ranger Watch from 48:33

Where that Ranger’s house stood Watch from 46:30

Caught the bus here for Foxford and Achill Watch from 13:35

A beautiful house from 1667 built with Dutch brick, offered to the state and lost Watch from 13:52

Bunnanaddan and Elphin People came from all around to sign the petition Watch from 15:48

Curlew Mountains Grew up there overlooking Lough Key; farming, relations all around, and an open house where everyone sat in for tea Watch from 00:16

Where the school bus started. Watch from 04:15

A school visited with the cup. Unconfirmed reading. Watch from 30:03

The funeral where the plan to buy Abbey Park was hatched. Watch from 19:35

Last of the Albert family lived there; left the Albert Cup. Watch from 01:07:13

Say hello to everyone from here on and people look at you in shock. Watch from 1:04:55

Where Joe’s cows were collected in the evening. Watch from 03:24

Dropping lads home; later, the checkpoint he avoided. Sensitive, see verification. Watch from 24:06

Co. Sligo May Conroy’s home place Watch from 1:07:47

Battle of Moytura “Only down the road in Highwood.” A story he says should have been taught in school. Watch from 1:26:58

Village a couple of miles from home. Watch from 02:41

Part of the Ballyfarnon football catchment. Watch from 05:48

Where Candon’s distributed goods. Watch from 18:08

Its people joined the protest against the road. Watch from 29:44

Where the conversation is recorded, in Gerry’s house. Watch from 00:20

Home of Pat Beirne, who oversaw the rebuild of Michael’s house. Watch from 55:15

Co. Sligo Born in 1959 in the farmhouse she was reared in; four cows, a mixed dairy farm Watch from 00:18

Rented a house there on moving home in 2018. Watch from 1:29:30

Went to work there at fourteen Watch from 06:21

His mother’s home place; he lived in a horse drawn caravan in the garden while his dad renovated the house Watch from 07:01

Home instead of Sligo; first “out in the sticks”, now she loves the peace, foxes and pheasants Watch from 09:40

The best holes were outside Pauline O’Rourke’s and Stan Walters’; quieter roads then Watch from 36:44

Courting walks with Benny out the road and back round by where they live now Watch from 35:43

Named among the surroundings that suit filming. Watch from 35:55

Once held by a handful of big farms, including Rockingham; families were shifted off to the Curlews and Croghan Watch from 37:12

A year in a rented house while the new house was built Watch from 04:15

Magnificent views of Benbulben and Knocknarea; you can lose yourself and find yourself at once Watch from 20:59

“You wouldn’t get better on a good day.” Watch from 54:27

Built after the Famine and stopped after a mile or two; a fairy fort, some say. Watch from 29:44

Where his mother Una came from. Location not recovered. Watch from 00:20

near Knockvicar Home from age two; from the front window you can see the top of the tower across Lough Key, and hear the Boyle train horn on still mornings Watch from 01:44

Street football after school with one ball between everyone. Watch from 00:11

Football with the town lads; tug-of-war team he says won Connacht in 1939 and 1940. Watch from 07:24

Where Jane’s father lived; later the railway house the family came into. Watch from 07:16

outside Boyle Where Noel has lived since leaving Boyle in 1977. Watch from 00:13

His home since 1977; refereeing and the youth club, and a new pitch development Watch from 26:22

Feely yard Six acres and a monumental yard, under one roof with another family. Watch from 32:19

Barry says the family were evicted from here before moving to Greatmeadow. Watch from 33:04

beside Boyle Abbey Their base for a 2016 family trip, with John and Christine Mitchell; they walked to the Abbey Watch from 40:23

A crystal clear old photograph from an Australian descendant of a clergyman who lived there Watch from 56:46

Back to the 1200s and once the only crossing of the river; old photos show its toll gate uprights and breakwater Watch from 38:44

She crosses the oldest bridge in Ireland most days, possibly once a toll bridge Watch from 05:22

The oldest stone bridge in Ireland, right out the back Watch from 41:49

David Carroll shipped a thresher to Yonkers Watch from 1:15:50

Ballyfarnon MacDermot Roe house where O’Carolan’s father worked. Watch from 20:56

Out at a gig till three and in at eight, sometimes checking the water pumps on the way home Watch from 54:00

Where he sends tourists. Watch from 54:00

The mine supplied its coal; on delivery days everything had to be go Watch from 52:10

Frenchpark Road The Georgian house she and her husband restored after marrying in 1987 Watch from 03:15

Watched from a lookout over O’Leary’s and where Sloan’s is now Watch from 43:24

unconfirmed which His mother cleaned there, cycling to the job Watch from 04:35

King House Boyle was a garrison town; well over a hundred Connaught Rangers from Boyle were lost in the war Watch from 18:19

Uptown Boutique was beside it. Watch from 08:27

Sharkeys worked for Madame MacDermot. Watch from 47:33

12th century; Barry says the town has never had enough connection to it. Watch from 46:58

The Abbey area in the 2040 plan; the town team pushes for more visitors there. Watch from 03:34

visitor access Florence on free entry days; Ciaran on Heritage Week. Watch from 25:35

Beside the GAA pitch. Watch from 53:37

“I suppose the Abbey.” Watch from 33:56

Climbing the round steps of the tower nearest the road and standing at the top of the wall. Watch from 42:15

The Kings first lived in the Abbey and were buried within its walls, so everyone assumed the vault was there Watch from 19:42

John King arrived from Yorkshire in 1603 with its deeds in his saddlebag Watch from 08:53

Might feature in the OPW documentary he’s starting to edit Watch from 53:04

Climbing the spiral stairs in the corner tower to walk the top of the wall, with no fear Watch from 56:25

“There’s the abbey and all these amazing ruins” Watch from 00:39

You drove right past it on the old Sligo road; history you could see from the car Watch from 04:16

An Aldi on Patrick Street won’t take away from the look of the Abbey Watch from 11:02

Planned sketch. Watch from 1:00:07

Walking around the top of the walls as young lads Watch from 30:08

Mentioned in connection with Plunkett and Sinn Féin. Unclear, see verification. Watch from 25:35

District court days; legal crowd in the back lounge. Watch from 22:10

Once known as the sessions house Watch from 23:25

Labouring on its renovation; the lads there helped him fit out his shop Watch from 15:17

Bosco the German Wizard, 1861; plays and shows. Watch from 20:32

One of her favourite places with the kids; a beautiful building, so why build another library? Watch from 1:00:03

“That was one of our playgrounds.” Stationmaster McCarron’s children, and the odd lift on the engine. Watch from 00:33

“Everything came by train.” Candon’s ran three carts from it; stone for the yard arrived here. Watch from 17:33

Goods for Candon’s came up from the station on a horse and cart, several times a day. Watch from 09:51

Where they ran to hide from the guards, sure they’d never look there Watch from 29:29

Willie Roe’s train to Sligo stopped here around 1905; he heard of work and never went on Watch from 01:11

Came in late at night on the train from Dublin, aged about fifteen Watch from 11:31

Meeting Santa off the train and running down the town behind him Watch from 02:06

A hotel a hundred yards from the station would be a boost Watch from 1:02:06

last steam train One of Christie’s photos in the books Watch from 37:49

“Coming down on the train a lot” from Sligo Watch from 00:39

Loads of cattle moved out by train on big fair days Watch from 14:08

Camden’s big Clydesdale horses clopping up to the station to collect the goods Watch from 05:43

“A very important town with the railway station.” Watch from 32:43

Her first impression after London: a beautiful little town with a clock in the middle Watch from 18:30

The subject of his talk and of his famine book. Watch from 51:07

“It was so bad in that workhouse up there.” Sensitive, see verification. Watch from 25:16

behind the courthouse The town jail; the prisoner who escaped in his wife’s clothes. Watch from 22:01

Cars lined up the whole way over it for the homecoming. Watch from 1:50:10

by Scanlon’s pub corner Fishing for perch off a ledge beside the bridge. Watch from 51:51

Another night of the Gala Festival Watch from 47:56

Where Donegal men arrived with lorries of seed potatoes Watch from 11:45

From the pub window he watched Forty Coats cross in his new coat at Christmas 1982 Watch from 19:56

unconfirmed which One of the landmarks he shows visiting friends Watch from 00:39

Sonny Regan always on it, eating a sandwich out of his pocket Watch from 56:49

His time capsule pick; he found an 1810 sketch of the old five arch bridge Watch from 1:05:27

Boyle River 1863: a boy jumped in and saved a child. Watch from 22:21

Harry Sharkey’s diving and swimming competitions. Watch from 36:39

Built in the early 1800s, the town’s first bypass Watch from 37:50

location unconfirmed Two seed forms for Barry and his brother Pat; the rough one is Barry, still maturing. Location not recovered. Watch from 45:16

Where arts officer Mary Mullins grew up beside him; she sent him to Tommy Egan in Boyle Watch from 10:05

One of the mythology sites Joe photographs. Watch from 1:23:30

Fifteen cairns on top, as old as the pyramids Watch from 01:30

Burnt in 1989 and beautifully restored by the new owner; Percy French festival there Watch from 34:46

King House gate As children they locked each other in, and ran through the ruined house with holes in the floors Watch from 52:47

Handball against the middle of the three store doors, until they were run off Watch from 01:32

The old main road turned left at the river along the convent gate and past the post office Watch from 37:50

Built beside the windmill, with a thresher bought in Longford Watch from 1:21:47

Duel between Thomas Fry and H. Irwin; both missed. Watch from 39:00

The plaque marking the 1917 election. Watch from 43:25

Bringing the children to see the bats underneath. Watch from 08:43

Christine took her on a walk up to the dolmen in summer 2016 Watch from 05:19

Where Gralton arrived home in 1932, then a horse and car to Effernagh Watch from 41:34

King House Part of the film shot “down in the dungeons” Watch from 32:53

“Everyone thought it was a mad idea.” A ruin he photographed in 1992; opened 1996 Watch from 1:19:03

One still stands in town, past Roddy’s; the Fryes fed the starving without government help Watch from 50:09

He slipped a shot of it into Great Lighthouses of Ireland, and the director left it in Watch from 53:04

One of the three character areas in the 2040 plan, the Frybrook creative space. Watch from 03:34

Probably the oldest occupied building in town; the Frys came at the Kings’ request to bring flax Watch from 27:57

Built in the 1740s by Quaker weavers; maybe the oldest inhabited house in Roscommon, with a famine soup pot still in the kitchen Watch from 48:18

Home of the Fry family; Thomas Fry fought a duel. Watch from 38:59

Curlew Mountains One of her local paintings Watch from 20:51

The guard there worked out his route to Achill Watch from 13:11

Lough Key Protected structure the Chamber of Commerce was working on. “Rome wasn’t built in a day.” Watch from 15:53

Kilty Creighton road “There are two stones which have girls and boys written on it.” Near the old dump. Watch from 19:19

Felton Road; road unconfirmed Glebe lands on old maps, land given to a rector; evidence of an early church Watch from 34:22

Used by resident artists, and for exhibitions during the arts festival Watch from 38:46

His aunt’s cut stone house from the 1740s; the Talbots also built the post office and school Watch from 47:34

An earlier house said to have burned there; the only fire on record Watch from 27:43

Bars cut on the river side let Jim Molloy drop into the Boyle River in the 1921 escape Watch from 30:47

Carlo mentions a plaque to John Reilly in the town. Location not recovered. Watch from 25:32

Named as a local draw. Watch from 54:25

A great development; he could remember it in ruins Watch from 1:01:07

In worse condition than Rockingham, now restored with a tricolour flying on top Watch from 34:36

Places she sends American visitors, along with Boyle Abbey Watch from 39:08

On Gerry’s road, where Ballinulta begins. Watch from 28:59

The King House cultural quarter; would gain exhibition space when the new library opens. Watch from 03:34

Took a stand at the Christmas market and sold out within two hours of the first day. Watch from 13:33

The King House Craft Fair, which she got into in 2023 after missing it the year before. Watch from 46:41

The old military barracks beside the guard station. Watch from 35:11

Once meant to be knocked for a car park; a crumbling shell and McNamara’s coal yard before the council saved it Watch from 36:42

She went to a paranormal evening there, and found the drive home scary Watch from 30:06

He and curator Neil Armstrong set up the Connaught Rangers display in 1999; as a barracks it was like a factory of 300 people Watch from 40:27

Where Carlo first met him, at a graduation Watch from 07:33

Built around 1730 by Sir Henry King; 40 rooms and 35 fireplaces, and still thought too small. She has guided tours there since 2016 Watch from 07:54

Filmed the extra minutes for RTÉ at Betty’s Irish UFO convention, interviewing ufologists from around the world Watch from 43:11

Launch of Christie Through the Lens; the books flew out the door Watch from 34:30

The Escape was filmed here in one day Watch from 32:53

Her early memory of passing through Boyle; she hopes to do its Christmas market Watch from 04:16

Connie and others organised to save it when it was in danger of being knocked down Watch from 19:45

Where Moylurg Rockingham’s first staff were based before the park opened Watch from 03:32

His first wedding, for Johnny McLean, who got up on stage with his band Watch from 21:15

A coal store and barracks remains; you’d look up walking past at night, wary of the Green Lady Watch from 10:10

A day scanning photographs with Tommy Egan and Mary Lavin, when the Landed Estates book took shape on the drive home Watch from 10:32

The council planned to knock it for a car park; a Boyle delegation saved it three days before work began Watch from 11:12

“Cocooned away” behind the gates and wall; the outdoor tables from Covid stayed Watch from 09:41

A forward-thinking county manager saved it in the 80s; he gave the 30th anniversary talk there Watch from 53:10

A derelict medium-sized house with unusual chimneys Watch from 1:07:25

Where the Kings lived first after leaving King House Watch from 13:30

116 feet long; a fireplace sold to Desmond Guinness was recovered and restored; recruits drilled there on wet days Watch from 25:32

Some 250 crannogs exposed when the lake was drained; he wants one restored. Watch from 47:00

Drummond Bridge and the Temple Estate features still in the forest park, with the stable yard being restored Watch from 39:34

Castle Island Car keys on a float near the castle for the splash and dash. Watch from 27:55

Main Street Three doors down from King House, with a plaque, and a tree planted across the road with a coin in its base Watch from 24:48

Co. Roscommon Known as Moat House, linked to the Croftons; later demolished with explosives despite Jack McQuillan’s protest in the Dáil Watch from 07:23

Carlo watched the splash and dash from “the tower”. Watch from 27:55

He remembers it being built, a big mass concrete tower Watch from 56:03

The Rockingham Remembered tour through the tunnels, up the tower and back on the Tree Canopy Walk, Ireland’s first Watch from 20:59

Croghan A three room cottage from about 1830 with a turf fire that hadn’t gone out in decades; the cover of her first book, now a ruin Watch from 00:20

Christie’s photo of the old postman Jim Lloyd collecting the post there Watch from 37:49

An old RIC station with guards’ houses behind it. The mystery tour stand-off happened outside it. Watch from 34:34

Playing house, with a stone shaped like a phone Watch from 06:39

The front was the best of it; the back had been let run down and needed a major facelift Watch from 31:00

Past Mary Sheridan’s house, with the outline of old houses and a laneway Watch from 27:02

top of Upper Marion Road The end of the road: “you could go no further”. Watch from 05:55

Ears to the track for steam trains; chestnuts dropped down the chimney from the bridge. Watch from 05:06

Route out to the river; wild strawberries on the bank. Watch from 35:48

“The train just passed in front of our house.” First train to Boyle 1862, he says. Watch from 08:23

Walking the tracks knowing the train times, and putting coins down to be flattened Watch from 32:35

Older people say the 1860s railway cut through a tunnel; there may be a cave entrance along the line Watch from 31:10

One of her favourite places; the tour ended there with people in costume Watch from 29:01

Where they say Halloween originated, near Tulsk Watch from 10:38

Where Noel came on the crowd the day a young boy drowned. Sensitive, see verification. Watch from 49:28

Where Maureen O’Sullivan was reared by her grandfather; she recognised every room on her 1988 visit Watch from 18:29

Possibly where the Herald worked from temporarily after the fire. Noel hedges it. Watch from 08:55

1957 It burned while the family were at the Doncaster sales; the house was pulled down in September 1971 Watch from 14:28

One of the events Christie recorded Watch from 17:48

1957 The fire spread at night while the owners were in England; locals saved furniture; structurally sound until demolished Watch from 33:06

Planned sketch. Watch from 1:00:07

Seven lodges, all different; small and well built, so they survived when the big houses didn’t Watch from 26:07

Designed by John Nash, built 1807 to 1817 for £52,000, with tunnels out to the lake Watch from 13:30

Played in its basement as a child, and saw it knocked Watch from 55:54

now the car park Where he was sent for fresh vegetables, fruit and berries. Watch from 47:18

Imagined in the plan as a covered food market; pavilion funding application unsuccessful. Watch from 09:34

Where the lane comes out near the river. Wool sacks to swing between, an egg store at the side, and the 1980s arts festival music. Watch from 04:18

His father was a signalman, and ran a hackney car too Watch from 08:04

unconfirmed name The Stewart family’s development of the hall that was a church from 1822 Watch from 1:00:45

One of the historic houses that survived Watch from 55:16

Its landlords were among the worst in the famine, yet it’s the one standing, with the Famine Museum Watch from 21:51

A short nine hole pitch and putt in its grounds, bang in the centre of town Watch from 12:38

Lough Key The old Rockingham gate lodge, shaped like a tiara, 100 yards past today’s entrance; people drive past it every day Watch from 35:18

One of the biggest dolmens in Ireland, Barry says. Watch from 48:50

Where you’d sit down as a young lad; teacher Ghost Gannon warned him about his company Watch from 1:13:33

Nobody on it during lockdown; he filmed the empty train and empty Sligo streets Watch from 30:13

Guarded by the FCA Watch from 11:37

Between Boyle and Carrick; saved by the Kirkwoods’ Grand National winner and immortalised by David Thomson’s book Watch from 55:36

A swimming club started there with visiting trainers; he went on to six Connacht medals Watch from 19:53

“One of the areas we’re told never to go near.” Where a lot of people learned to swim. Watch from 10:48

Fishing, meeting and swimming spots; Assylinn swimmers like Damien Tiernan and Wayne Suffin became brilliant Watch from 19:01

Their route to Ronan’s off the public road. Watch from 61:28

One look at it on a week’s holiday and she wanted to see it every day; she has climbed it once, with guides Watch from 02:04

Ruth photographs nature there. Watch from 41:58

Lough Key Gerry Sweeney ran the boat; Pete Walsh and family the smaller boats. Watch from 11:15

Lough Key His job from 14 to 17, chatting to people every day Watch from 35:28

Every Sunday four of them hired a boat off Pete Walsh and blew around the lake Watch from 30:08

Her strongest memory: peaceful days on the bog with the bog cotton, then the river before going home Watch from 04:59

Knockvicar Beautiful walks, with a big new car park Watch from 47:54

Brings people in. Watch from 54:11

It should have come further up into the town Watch from 1:01:43

Another place to get out of town during lockdown Watch from 28:06

Out after rabbits and shooting with friends. Watch from 42:58

Lough Key Out on the rental rowboats for early videos; the Boyle landmark he’d never tire of filming, by kayak or drone Watch from 18:53

Lough Key The MacDermott castle in the annals, a King folly and ladies’ tea spot; burnt in 1938; Yeats’s Castle of the Heroes Watch from 40:04

Laps nearly every morning before work Watch from 09:38

She loves the angle it leans into the field Watch from 20:59

Lough Key An even older small church; rent a boat on a Sunday and go and look Watch from 29:46

A favourite running route, by the castle Watch from 47:34

Source of the sandstone used to smooth stone and sharpen chisels. Watch from 35:24

Part of why Boyle looks good on screen: “very dramatic”. Watch from 35:55

the Mail Coach Road The old main road to Sligo went straight up the Curlews Watch from 37:50

Men from the Curlews came in with seed potatoes too; families were sent up there from the plains Watch from 11:45

Home of the Higgins family, relations of Mel Gibson Watch from 50:03

Battles in the Curlews and the legend of Úna Bhán: history she’d love to paint Watch from 21:32

Doon Shore and Rockingham Cycling every morning on Mary Menton’s spare bike and posting photos on Facebook; very healing Watch from 43:02

She won’t climb to it and pleads with people not to try in flip flops Watch from 07:23

Easter fishing weekend, when Lulu went to be minded. Watch from 24:13

Lough Key Swimming. Name not confirmed. Watch from 00:54

Swimming and lifesaving lessons from the lifeguards so her mum had peace of mind Watch from 10:21

Swimming in the summers. Watch from 01:03

Lough Key How close the World Trade Center was: like looking from the end of the pier to the nearest island Watch from 31:51

They towed the mobile sauna there and jumped in the lake with friends Watch from 1:19:56

Lough Key A regular two kilometre crossing in training Watch from 07:07

A planned zipline from the tower could cross the lake to it, the longest in Europe Watch from 46:47

Joe Mooney’s push for the canal Watch from 1:27:59

Cycle track kerbed and ground relandscaped with 2022 ORIS funding. Watch from 15:09

A stop on the bus tour, with a girl singing inside Watch from 28:39

Next step up after the rock for young swimmers. Watch from 38:16

Mossy and slippy, with talk of a hole that would pull you down; shallow for the younger ones Watch from 34:18

“I go for a walk in the forest. I’ve always done this” Watch from 55:22

Her 2013 phone photo of it in snow went viral; one of her favourite spots Watch from 05:54

He and Barry Feely knew every field and hedge on both sides, with hideouts for bows and arrows. Watch from 03:37

Cleavers, hawthorn, nettles, dock leaves and eyebright: “everything is there for us” Watch from 36:25

The bonfire at the top for years, with over a hundred people and cars out from town Watch from 01:14

unconfirmed name After years driving past, he realised you can see the sea from up there Watch from 20:29

Where the Sharkeys originated. Watch from 46:41

Family summer holiday: swimming, fishing, cooking. Watch from 40:00

Keshcorran Their house overlooks it; Boyle has an amazing location Watch from 56:13

Greyhounds barking behind Daly’s as you walked up; children swam at the lawn too. Watch from 08:28

“A drop in the ocean of what’s needed up there.” Watch from 05:52

Part of the hares and hounds territory; slate cakes decorated with sand sold to passers by Watch from 26:20

Bonfire Night A committee table with lemonade and sweets, and a contest for the biggest bonfire Watch from 41:20

“They stopped cutting the grass on the lawn.” Sensitive, see verification. Watch from 56:14

A lake crossing on the way to building his distance Watch from 07:53

The 1932 Lough Key Regatta MacDermott Challenge Cup. Watch from 37:06

the Trinity boat Drove the Trinity for Pete Walsh and Bernie for three or four years. Watch from 26:22

the lake Splash and dash: balloons dipping to touch the water. Watch from 27:16

His mother filmed his motivational clips on the walk down to it Watch from 07:49

John Hinde’s postcards of children feeding the deer and the boats Watch from 17:50

Out on the boats with Betty Myler, looking for the portal she believed was on the lake Watch from 33:54

Barry Feeley took her on a drive out Watch from 05:19

Swimming in the water during lockdown, hardly feeling restricted Watch from 1:18:21

a still November morning Florence’s photo of swans gliding past the castle, which Margaret painted Watch from 12:29

Something from it would go in her time capsule, with St Bridget’s Cross and the cure Watch from 1:24:51

Scouts regional competition Bushcraft, and a screw found in the stew Watch from 16:57

1867: a naturalist drowned saving two boys. Sensitive, see verification. Watch from 37:32

Watching balloons rise from the top of Tarmon; his school writing prize was a balloon ride at Lough Key Watch from 50:12

A giant book balloon floating past her window; landing calls to the restaurant; chasing one to Highwood last September Watch from 1:23:24

Drone footage with Irish Aviation Authority permission; a foggy morning made it go viral Watch from 46:06

Pitches nestled in the trees, five minutes from the lake Watch from 22:21

1999 Battle of the Curlews reenactment. “The park got too full that day.” Watch from 17:07

Franchise granted by the Forestry in 1985; “second to Dublin Zoo” for visitors, as quoted. Watch from 02:28

Linked to Boyle through the Lough Key Master Plan and the 2040 vision. Watch from 14:54

“On our doorstep.” Watch from 54:11

“Known originally as Rockingham”; part of what impressed her about Boyle from day one Watch from 04:28

Rock the Lock festival, September 2002; Bottle opened on the big festival stage Watch from 14:12

“the big tree” A tree you could walk inside “like a house”, with a branch loop to swing on Watch from 04:59

A driving lessons day that turned into four or five hours messing around the park Watch from 13:27

Like a fairy tale when she first saw it as a child; the tunnels were open in her teens, and it’s her biggest inspiration now Watch from 02:03

Painting benches before the 2007 opening, then running Boda Borg; back as general manager in 2024. “It’s the people’s park” Watch from 03:32

The forest, the river through Boyle and the lake are beautiful, but the water needs checking Watch from 06:22

“A gem on our doorstep” Watch from 44:06

She climbed the Moylurg Tower on her own and roamed the tunnels; the setting for her first novel Watch from 14:56

Gorgeous any day; the balloon week brought the crowds back, and they can walk up to it from home Watch from 51:26

Arrived in April 1985 aged 8; the park was their front garden, with deer on the lawn and mist on the water Watch from 03:31

Summer swimming. Watch from 05:34

Driving through the tree tunnel to the lake and castle settled it: “everything I always wanted as a kid” Watch from 19:01

Where they filmed Mark’s poem video that got hundreds of thousands of views Watch from 38:35

A morning there with Tara, a man in a sauna hat, and the idea for Crack and Crackle Watch from 17:12

Friday mornings Tara’s yoga and sauna sessions starting in October Watch from 44:42

“The MacDermott of the island.” Frank MacDermott presented the cup. Watch from 36:17

Arigna He’s very involved with the walk and set up its first Facebook pages; the views are unbelievable Watch from 19:14

His father bounced a signal off it to get the BBC. Watch from 07:45

Near the Knockvicar farm; Bernie used to go fishing Watch from 06:21

Where his father, a Boyle man, was born and reared Watch from 00:38

The other side’s swimmers kept to their own bank. Watch from 36:39

Gala festival five-a-sides. John refereed there for years. Watch from 20:34

Soccer matches watched by the Marion Road children. Watch from 12:58

His first play is named after it; “the pleasure ground looks too good now” for a 2009 setting. Watch from 31:56

Home ground for the street league games, as Carlo recalls it. Watch from 01:01

Lunchtimes from St Mary’s re-enacting the previous night’s Jackass Watch from 06:19

Molloy crossed into it after the escape; once a strolling garden for the King ladies Watch from 31:30

Summer five a side street leagues with the wall lined with spectators; his team won one Watch from 07:38

He filmed ladies’ football there, then had to tape over it because tapes were £10 Watch from 33:37

Messing around there and the roundabout after school matches, with a bag of chips Watch from 12:09

War games with sticks for guns, Murder Tig, and a ring of people round the pitch during the Gala Watch from 02:09

Newly redone with a basketball court, swings and slides when he was young Watch from 01:05

Five a side on tarmac, winner stays on. Watch from 05:34

Children there all day; five-a-side soccer. Watch from 01:03

Where they’d congregate for a few hours in the old days Watch from 24:46

Gathering tadpoles and watching them turn into frogs Watch from 06:36

Where he kept a boat for fishing; where he met the old man. Watch from 42:58

behind Main Street Old storehouses and undeveloped ground the plan sees as restaurants and public spaces. Watch from 03:50

Sunday sessions where “you see people walking up the river.” Watch from 13:00

All England Club fisheries Staked off for English anglers with two rods each and tins of maggots Watch from 48:24

the Pleasure Ground, the Lawn and the Mill Done up or being done up: the town is on the verge of regeneration Watch from 52:33

from Bridge Street The Orinoco pod looks out over the river; moving water cleanses the place, and could power the town Watch from 33:55

Willie Daly fly fishing; a spoons player when a session broke out in the pub Watch from 07:12

Driving around in the summer to see what was up each road; the river stuck out to her Watch from 06:23

Fishing as a way to get away from everything Watch from 12:19

The energy that flows through the town; she’d love more independent shops and footfall Watch from 40:33

Sensitive, see verification. Watch from 25:16

Rowing trips from Boyle to Enniskillen and Portumna with James Candon. Watch from 61:51

He sees a move to open the town up to the river, like Westport, with the walk from the bridge to the car park Watch from 50:00

Dowra to Limerick 230km in eight days in August 2025, the fastest recorded time, for North West STOP Watch from 01:09

The farm looked out over it Watch from 06:21

north facing bank Carlo pictures deck chairs and riverside businesses. Watch from 25:47

New promenade along the back of the river linking up to King House. Watch from 05:04

Where the smallest children started swimming. Watch from 38:24

Carlo places the Lakeshore “out in Rockingham” in the intro. Watch from 00:00

The early Feelys worked its quarry and built some of its bridges. Watch from 32:19

One of the few estates that owned the land between Croghan and Boyle Watch from 37:12

“Where would you get a park like Rockingham?” A wonderful asset for any town Watch from 08:23

Cycled to from Boyle; Doon Shore was too far until they could drive Watch from 31:36

Rosemary, granddaughter of Sir Cecil Stafford King-Harman, shared family photographs Watch from 27:23

Thumbing lifts out. Later, drownings there in the papers. Watch from 01:03

A great sauna right on the lake Watch from 45:19

Summer swimming; for the smaller children. Watch from 35:12

“The well just on the edge of town”, part of Boyle’s link with St Patrick and St Attracta Watch from 33:45

She couldn’t find it, posted from a cafe, and a stranger called Katrina walked her there Watch from 24:57

A small well past Frybrook House towards Assylin, with horses and the river behind Watch from 22:01

In summer the river drew the kids down to it like a magnet Watch from 04:00

Five minutes from the centre; a famous primary water well whose water was said to heal below the knees Watch from 1:10:28

To be connected up with the Lawn as part of the loop. Watch from 08:25

She knows the McLoughlins from the swimming days there Watch from 22:06

“We always claimed the third rock because that was the deepest.” Watch from 36:39

Lough Key Monks from the Abbey built a church house here, where the Annals of Lough Key were written Watch from 29:46

Lough Key Their dog chased the deer down it; open to everyone then. Watch from 08:43

Covid opened her eyes to the beautiful walks; now she directs tourists Watch from 25:26

The front lawn down to the boats may become a family zone Watch from 48:40

the Crescent Tony Farrell’s cinema, or his father’s; Oliver saw The World at Their Feet twice. Watch from 33:29

School afternoons at old films; Mrs Farrell on tickets, Joe Walsh with the torch, and Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb Watch from 12:42

GAA summer dance festivals; the Freshmen rehearsed to an empty marquee Watch from 43:38

A music video shoot when it had just opened led to his first paid job, filming for Michael Higgins Watch from 13:20

His first DJ gig in February 2006, with Party Time DJs Watch from 13:58

the Hideaway and the Rockingham Arms Pubs older customers spoke of fondly; he hopes Mattimoe’s will be remembered the same way Watch from 42:35

“That was some pub.” Possibly the Three Counties. Watch from 34:19

Pub with a dartboard. Watch from 39:52

Joe’s office was a corner of the bar. Watch from 04:45

Court days, and where the episode was recorded. Watch from 22:32

Cows milked at the back; feed boiled in an iron pot. Watch from 03:24

The Goatskin Band played here. Watch from 11:29

An hour and a half on the bus; they waited for the Roscommon Herald to see if it was on Watch from 42:47

Waiting for the Roscommon Herald to see if it was on; also Kilchimar and Mohul Watch from 14:05

Reopened June 2021; mad for six to eight weeks. Watch from 48:58

“That big stairs, people were falling down it all the time.” Watch from 16:20

Three hotels once, none at the time of recording. Watch from 46:22

Growing up above it: music sessions, the jukebox, darts and pool; it closed in September 1996 Watch from 22:34

The Crescent, Boyle “A focal point for traditional music”; regular sessions; no longer there. Watch from 23:46

pub, premises now [name to verify] Pub known for sessions drawing musicians from Roscommon and Sligo; gone before his time. Watch from 04:36

corner of Patrick Street and Bridge Street Scene of the meeting after the 1917 count. Later the Northern Bank, then Pyramid betting. Watch from 42:13

“It was 4 pence to get in.” Name not given. Watch from 22:34

Sunday evening matinee, fourpence in, Hopalong Cassidy. Watch from 52:44

Went to the pictures the same night Watch from 12:17

the Crescent Waiting on the Crescent on Sundays for the film reels to arrive from Carrick; stalls, balcony and jumbo seats Watch from 17:24

Carrick-on-Shannon He and Joe Ryan were left speechless at the end of Infinity War Watch from 09:39

Watching Jurassic Park as children Watch from 15:42

now Better Buys Reopened 1977 with Bugsy Malone; red velvet double seats. Watch from 03:03

Knockvicar Presents the Clancy Cup. Watch from 01:06:54

The darts challenge with Loretto, and the sling. Watch from 27:35

Album launch at Boyle Arts Festival, 2019. “A great night”. Watch from 25:00

Good crack, and the bouncers carried his chair up the stairs Watch from 18:34

The nightclub Carlo grew up beside; Dean just missed its heyday. Watch from 14:59

Chipper shifts ran till six in the morning when Cleo’s came out, the birds singing Watch from 54:42

Open around 1991 or 1992; Carlo’s bedroom wall was one of its walls Watch from 41:04

The album’s launch night Watch from 49:11

Part of the nightlife boom Watch from 36:05

Part of the scene; Carlo’s bedroom was next door Watch from 18:45

Commercial travellers had their desks there; staff let one sleep in rather than wake him Watch from 21:26

The Goatskin Band played here. Watch from 11:29

Next door to Sheerin’s; he heard of JFK’s assassination on their television Watch from 57:07

Dominic and May Cosgrove’s, where Noel lined coffins in the back kitchen. “I learned the trade of lining a coffin.” Watch from 02:32

Played a couple of nights there, and his nephew Dara got up and played with him Watch from 1:13:00

Where the darts players still play on Thursdays Watch from 26:03

Played darts there; Thursday nights still. “You’re nearly relaxed straight away.” Watch from 40:28

Burnt down when he was about thirteen. About 300 seats, upstairs and down. Watch from 02:46

Came to see a film by motorbike; it later became Better Buys Watch from 46:07

bottom of the Crescent Where Noel got caught in the Fleadh crowd as a small child. “I thought I was going to die.” Watch from 57:57

The Times Showband and the Swarbriggs; lots of good dances in Boyle Watch from 11:46

Patrick Street T.J. Devine’s grocery and bar; snugs, a pot-bellied stove, and a second gin and tonic ordered with one finger. Watch from 26:31

Folk night on the first Thursday; fortnightly Friday session Mossie attends. Watch from 24:46

the Crescent Bar, the Crescent Recorded in the back lounge. In the family since 1948. Watch from 00:07

Mrs Dodd and a young Dennis behind the counter; he still drops in for a pint Watch from 25:15

Had one of the first colour TVs Watch from 30:31

His first proper gig, sweating buckets; a regular at the First Thursday Folk Club, where every walk of life plays Watch from 16:02

Where the musical crowd might go for a pint Watch from 46:19

Had a bacon counter, Tommy thinks. Watch from 29:01

Patrick Street Dominic’s taxi drove Dudley to Dublin. Sensitive, see verification. Watch from 16:25

“The first pub I actually played darts for.” Watch from 39:52

The traditional music pub; he brought his wife Anne to a session there Watch from 21:49

Where Londis is now; every place from there down to Bowles’s was open Watch from 17:53

top of the Crescent Where Noel’s father lodged in the late twenties and John McGowan the detective later stayed. Watch from 44:18

Gathering for the tug of war. Watch from 54:01

Italia 90, pies, then a restaurant. Name not recovered, see verification. Watch from 08:58

Sean Kenny came in wrapped in hat and scarf, then Noel Conroy in just his shirt Watch from 07:11

Slagging after a match about the day Jerry Emmett saved the referee Watch from 30:10

His granny’s pub, which his mother took over; huts in the fields, the football pitch and up the mountain Watch from 00:13

Fenagh, Co. Leitrim His first disco gig; a priest condemned the hall from the altar, which only made it more popular Watch from 29:19

Where Noel saw his first television, at the end of the bar, early 1960s. Now a charity shop. Watch from 19:04

Arigna Seamus Byrne sang waltz after waltz to see if the dancers would give in first Watch from 05:42

“The Forest Park Hotel was packed.” The balloonists’ survivors’ night. Watch from 29:16

Where Mary Cretaro interviewed him for the Chamber lotto job. Watch from 57:54

Carrick Road, Boyle Being built when he came home; lost to fire, “an awful pity” Watch from 54:12

Another hotel of weddings and dinner dances, gone now Watch from 02:56

Over-eighteens discos, a bit more exotic than the Royal Watch from 40:27

Their reception, when the Gilmartins ran it; “the place for every wedding”, with Christie booked every Saturday from May to September Watch from 02:49

Give Us a Clue fundraiser in 1987 with Michael Gilmartin, which he filmed Watch from 35:14

One of the town’s two hotels Watch from 42:52

Worked there from 17, waiting on tables at weddings Watch from 12:05

Discos. Watch from 02:35

The morning after a 21st: music and a bouncy castle people jumped onto from upstairs windows Watch from 21:12

Photograph of the 1966 Fleadh. Watch from 18:47

His later regular. Watch from 22:05

N4 Where they stayed while house hunting, looked after by Agnes Harrington Watch from 14:18

by Ardcarne Her Boyle base with Agnes Harrington: “why didn’t you say it was Anna Marie?” It inspired her second novel Watch from 02:16

Carlo unsure whether sessions started there or at the Céilí House. Name not recovered. Watch from 23:59

the Crescent One of four pubs on the Crescent; home of the Grehan sisters. Watch from 08:00

unconfirmed name Run by Connor Hamill; one of the few places to stay Watch from 01:52

Carrick-on-Shannon Where everyone went after the MBNA corn boil Watch from 08:04

Mrs Heaver sold fish in their little shop beside the pub Watch from 14:29

the Crescent Paddy and Rita’s pub. Watch from 08:00

unconfirmed which Dermot minded it in winters when the Regans took a holiday. Watch from 14:48

above Daly’s Rustic furniture overlooking Bridge Street; the island’s first hydrogen bar Watch from 1:14:00

Bank managers and solicitors met there every night in Cunningham’s day Watch from 18:11

His first pints, 1 and 3 pence each. Watch from 25:09

Pub with a dartboard. Rest of the line not recovered. Watch from 39:52

Scanlon’s The music lounge his mother named after the tenor, open 1977 until the 1979 fire Watch from 15:01

Where Dudley walked in the same night. Sensitive, see verification. Watch from 17:38

Patrick Street “The place” before heading to Cleo’s Watch from 42:04

formerly the Rockingham Arms Bottle got six or seven dates at a time there; he reckons he’s played every pub in town Watch from 17:34

What Arlo missed in lockdown, so he built a mobile sauna in 14 hours Watch from 1:19:56

Where the String Records began, named by a guard watching them break strings Watch from 42:04

Pints and guitars with Derek; Frank Egan named them the String Wrecks Watch from 37:40

Where backing singers were rounded up at night for Ó No Somalia: “a drunken choir of angels” at 5am Watch from 52:18

Pubs on their rounds, with the Moylurg later on nearly every night Watch from 12:05

Royal Hotel; unconfirmed name The room with the most stories: discos so hot that steam out the windows was mistaken for a fire Watch from 30:48

One of Boyle’s hotels. Watch from 42:35

One of three hotels in Ruth’s childhood. Watch from 06:11

The silver cup was thrown out from here and ended up at the dump. Watch from 36:39

A big dark pub, with games nights on Tuesdays Watch from 42:04

now the Three Counties, Patrick Street Brendan’s pub, their gang’s favourite Watch from 11:49

An old pub in the list. Watch from 34:57

Where Tommy Egan asked him to lend his Rangers material for the display Watch from 41:02

by the railway Where Boyle was called “a stranger’s paradise” Watch from 54:26

Darts and pool teams, bigger competitions, two snooker tables in the back room. Watch from 40:13

Where Christy Wynne heard Boyle called “a stranger’s paradise” (raised by Carlo). Watch from 36:09

Bridge Street He ran it from 2016 to 2022 after a coin flip, YouTubing how to change a keg two nights before opening Watch from 26:25

Saturday evening pool with “Wire Brush” Conlon, and 25 coins waiting on the table Watch from 56:08

the Three Counties “The center of our social life those times.” Watch from 20:17

across the road The trad house of its day. Watch from 36:50

Played there, and saw phenomenal acts there on his doorstep Watch from 18:17

restaurant under O’Dowd’s, Kate Lavin’s All there when she arrived in 2005, gone now Watch from 58:33

His first gig, a packed Haiti fundraiser around 2010; Matt Burke told him to slow down Watch from 38:19

pub or venue Packed on weekend nights; later the pub whose door went on a Sunday session. Name to verify. Watch from 12:36

Its door ended up in the middle of a 21st birthday marquee Watch from 16:54

Closed at eleven, sending its characters on to the Royal till one in the morning Watch from 04:45

The only off licence in Boyle when he was growing up; a great pub, now gone Watch from 43:50

“I remember Parker’s. We were still about 16.” Watch from 15:37

Forest Park Hotel The nightclub at the Forest Park, a fair distance out Watch from 36:07

Everyone he meets asks about it; a different show from the one he’d play in Carrick Watch from 1:03:31

Where he met his wife Martina; people stopped walking out that far Watch from 42:04

Working behind the bar was better than a night out; the gang just clicked Watch from 15:51

small hotel A little hotel; Carlo thought it was Lynch’s Watch from 42:52

One of Boyle’s hotels. Watch from 42:31

up the Green Where the credit union is now; Mr Moran housed down-and-outs for free and brought parcels to Tarmon Watch from 32:58

Location not recovered. Gerry wants objectors to think twice. Watch from 58:44

Talk of a hotel, after Boyle went from three hotels to none Watch from 31:05

Presents a cup. Name not recovered. Watch from 01:06:54

unconfirmed, possibly the Crannóg The one surviving photo of the Super Sunday Club in their blue named t-shirts was taken outside Watch from 08:06

name unconfirmed A Friday residency, lugging speakers up the Crescent; the publican hated them Watch from 39:30

27 pubs when he opened in 1986, plus DH Burke’s, Christy Wynne’s and Bob’s: the heartbeat of the town Watch from 54:58

One left, part time, from about eight. Watch from 1:02:33

A treasure hunt for the balloonists, a clue in every pub. Watch from 23:31

Five or six now, from 32. Watch from 1:02:29

Sixteen or seventeen pubs then; barmen borrowed Bulmers from the next pub to keep up Watch from 09:47

Super Sundays A big gang of friends on pub crawls around the town: “wild” Watch from 37:14

Super Sundays Bank holiday Sundays: “shots? Meet you in Regan’s in 20 minutes after Mass” Watch from 15:53

Teenage sessions with Seamus Thompson, Anne, Jerry Morris and Francis Gaffney. Watch from 25:00

Away darts venue. Watch from 42:05

There may always have been an inn on that side of the river before Freeman built Watch from 20:09

Booked himself in for the night; “everyone was stunned and shocked” Watch from 12:17

Owned around 1917 by Charles Devine. Watch from 42:35

Where news came through the night Tom Dunphy was killed Watch from 50:09

25th anniversary and 50th birthday on one night. Seanie Simons took half the money. Watch from 23:02

One of Boyle’s hotels. Watch from 42:13

The second general meeting of the Arts Festival, where he became treasurer. Watch from 22:43

former Royal Hotel Redeveloped as a civic and enterprise space; the Boyle Arts Festival were the first exhibitors. Watch from 04:20

Boyle once had the Royal; now no hotel. Watch from 38:58

An Ríoga Noel glad to see it looking well again. He was told the name means the young royal. Watch from 46:00

Once the town’s centrepiece; lovely work done on it, but it isn’t open Watch from 31:05

He was a barman there; discos upstairs with the floor heaving, and great weddings Watch from 05:21

Done up at a cost of millions but unused; it should at least have a coffee shop Watch from 58:58

Discos in the new romantic days, meeting Boy George, and Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell in for breakfast; his wife Margaret worked there Watch from 48:11

The documentary crew stayed there and filmed some scenes; it still had old Bakelite phones Watch from 33:35

Weddings and dinner dances in its prime; election rallies outside in the seventies with crowds on the bridge Watch from 02:56

You could see a colour TV through its window; discos at 17 or 18 Watch from 30:22

Built by John Freeman in 1782 as Freeman’s Royal; closed in 2012. Every conversation she had in town led back to it Watch from 01:52

The restored Royal, venue for her In These Rooms exhibition from 31 August 2024 Watch from 34:12

Her first official date with Christie Regan, 4 January 1978 Watch from 02:49

Where the gallery moved; part of the arts festival Watch from 29:23

Their 1968 wedding reception, and the going away suit that went missing Watch from 33:05

He and Molly got inside the derelict hotel and filmed it; Sean O’Dowd shared the video Watch from 13:41

World Rally Eddie Jordan came, with a projector on the wall and thousands of people in Boyle Watch from 19:24

Her book signing in May 2016 Watch from 22:22

Going for coffee Watch from 02:22

Watching out the window for the bus home from the bridge; weddings, parties and funerals, a huge loss to the town Watch from 14:44

Urban exploration videos for his first YouTube channel Watch from 18:44

Manpower meeting where he heard about the butchery apprenticeship, 1984. Watch from 15:41

Discos. A shotgun raffled there in 1854. Watch from 02:35

His first nights out again; Cleo’s had no accessible toilet so he crossed to the Plunkett Home Watch from 1:01:49

Florence recalls toilets being pulled out of Scanlan’s on a Sunday session. Watch from 13:05

Pub with a dartboard; weekend competitions. Watch from 39:52

It ended the John McCormack Room and took his mother’s piano Watch from 39:28

at the bridge Council works here exposed what looked like a tunnel under the river towards Assylin Watch from 32:36

at the bridge His father bought it at auction in 1969; the family lived over it from 1973 to 1984, though the pub was never his scene Watch from 02:46

In the 1920s a pub at one end, a grocery at the other, and bottlers made to whistle Watch from 13:09

unconfirmed name Where he walked in his school uniform to tell his father he’d left school Watch from 10:00

A few drinks there on his fortieth Watch from 21:19

later Carr’s Owned by John Spellman, brother of the woman in the bakery shop Watch from 06:51

Where people pointed her, at nine in the morning Watch from 25:59

Where the World Rally crowds came; “an extension of your house nearly” Watch from 18:42

Boyle nightspots after the Cleo’s days Watch from 16:14

the Crescent Frank and Rita’s pub; their TV picked up Dodd’s microwave. Watch from 08:00

top of the Crescent His grandparents ran it as Cahill’s pub; later Tarpey’s, which got a colour TV for the 1978 World Cup Watch from 00:47

Where Gerry drank and Terry suggested buying a pub. Name not recovered. Watch from 08:37

outside Carrick-on-Shannon Another pub where Seamus Thompson played. Watch from 16:22

later The Well What became of Devine Conlon’s, under Michael Martin and then The Well. Watch from 01:05:07

Weekend darts competitions. Watch from 41:11

Ruth worked Sundays; darts and pool teams. Watch from 07:57

John’s first regular pub. Watch from 22:05

corner of Green Street and Main Street Lent the drink trays for sliding. “When snow fell, it really fell.” Watch from 23:11

Paddy Perry always went in for a pint when home from Dublin Watch from 17:36

pub Where the Sunday session ended up, door in tow. Watch from 13:22

One night of the Gala Festival was held there Watch from 47:56

A 2014 gig video there went viral again ten years later Watch from 41:25

beside the bookies Frank Mahon whistling outside with his bicycle on Saturday mornings Watch from 57:21

Main Street Uncle Tom’s pub and her granny’s shop, where she worked summers; her grandmother raised five children above it with her sisters Watch from 00:32

He worked in it when his brother ran it, his first taste of business Watch from 08:00

Main Street Harry Wynne’s first office, next door to where he was born; later up the street at the O’Haras’ and then Patrick Street Watch from 11:44

the train station and the new library Good news for Boyle’s future, with a new bridge at the station and funding for Lough Key Watch from 56:06

Carrick-on-Shannon People take the train from Boyle to shop there, and spend in other shops too Watch from 09:31

First in town with ice cream in summer; the bottom half of what’s now Marian’s shop Watch from 06:09

Carlo finishes the line “right down to Applegreen”. Watch from 33:53

Modern landmark for where the old boys’ school stood, behind it. Watch from 08:18

“The arcade was lovely.” Restaurant, jeweller, bakery, fashion and shoe shops. Watch from 06:11

A massive contribution for artists and makers, with the interior design shop and old jewellery shops Watch from 41:49

town centre “You’re there in the middle of the town.” Watch from 1:36:00

Mrs Kelly, Mrs Harrington, Bridie Gallagher and others housing balloonists. Watch from 29:22

A childhood memory of Boyle Watch from 02:22

name unconfirmed Eclairs and cream buns as a reward for elocution lessons; open into the nineties Watch from 1:02:29

Run by Tommy Dowd; “They’re all flying.” Watch from 1:03:07

Porter for thirty years, collar and tie every day Watch from 1:02:30

Credit to the staff for a branch where you can still talk to someone Watch from 20:44

former cinema site What the cinema building became after the fire. Watch from 04:21

Ruth worked there; Moonboy filmed a scene there. Watch from 10:34

Little shop in his house; five pence to spend after lunch. Watch from 01:03

Christy Wynne’s and Don Frawley’s Iconic penny sweet shops of their youth Watch from 12:42

Ten pence each into a kitty for cigarettes and the games until school started Watch from 09:37

near Brogan’s; unconfirmed name A teenage hangout for a bar of chocolate; drip dry shirts in the window Watch from 15:12

beside Christy Wynne’s Bead curtain, smoke and newspapers; always packed Watch from 52:18

Four boxes of the book sold on the Saturday, and still they wanted more Watch from 35:33

Shoe shop. Watch from 06:11

Her local stockist in Boyle at the time of recording. Watch from 47:53

Ran a bus tour years ago, possibly called the King’s Trail, that she’d love to see again Watch from 28:11

A champion of local crafters, where she got to know the town; Anna worked there Watch from 10:58

Owned by Vincent McDonough. Watch from 26:59

beside John Harrington’s Where his uncle John Brown had his solicitor’s practice. Sensitive, see verification. Watch from 03:16

In at half five as cleaner to light the stoves, then the whole town on foot. Watch from 09:23

Shop Street Back home in 1995 to “welcome home, Paul”; postmaster on contract from 2008 until the doors closed on 30 January 2025 Watch from 05:22

Telephone in 1920; old telegrams found when it moved. Watch from 27:22

Desi McLaughlin’s shop with the red cases, where Upper Wynne’s is Watch from 34:25

The intricate watch in his window: “it all happened by chance? No.” Watch from 20:58

unconfirmed location Where May Conroy worked Watch from 1:06:57

From Mrs Brogan’s garden to the stockroom, photo lab and vet counter; Pat said he could always come back Watch from 23:41

top of the Crescent Where she had lunch on her first visit at Christmas 2015; gone now Watch from 02:21

beside the Methodist Church A second barbershop, also run by two brothers. Watch from 48:09

Where a filling station is now Watch from 12:17

She and her husband go at least once a week Watch from 29:41

Patrick Street A big business in a busier town Watch from 42:52

Another of the fires, with talk of an arsonist Watch from 39:04

A major fire before John’s time in the brigade. Watch from 08:27

St Patrick Street A huge business. Money and dockets sent across the shop on a wire to the office. Watch from 09:47

the Nyere factory, Stewart’s and Feeley’s When the town was booming Watch from 22:34

Employed a lot of people. Watch from 47:44

A very big company, drawing goods from the station and distributing around the area. Watch from 17:56

Wagons shunted into Candon’s own line and juggled in and out of the sheds. Watch from 01:54

Next door; perhaps why he’s a lifelong vegetarian Watch from 15:56

Bridge Street An upmarket grocery where you got things you mightn’t find anywhere else Watch from 06:42

now solicitors’ offices Tom addressed the town from a trailer outside it after his ordination, 1968. Watch from 14:34

In her pyjamas at 7am during the storm, out of gas Watch from 1:13:55

Sweets from Phil and Teresa: “Well, how much do you have?” Jawbreakers, Fat Frogs, Black Jacks Watch from 40:48

Main Street The old petrol pump stood beside it Watch from 02:56

Its rack of John Hinde postcards shaped his eye for colour Watch from 17:20

“Aladdin’s cave”: Starlight, Hot Press and World Cup magazines kept for you Watch from 27:35

Penny bangers for Halloween, comics, models and motorbike magazines; the shop he’d bring back Watch from 03:13

Main Street Opposite the bank; her dad always bought his petrol there Watch from 06:24

Driving in past it for the homecoming. Watch from 1:50:00

Where he bumps into old classmates passing through Boyle Watch from 21:28

Where the rabbit for Jim was bought. Watch from 32:29

closed Carlo: closed a couple of years ago. Watch from 29:41

Worked there after her FETAC childcare course Watch from 58:38

Where he met Mark Attwood, through a video for Dale Watch from 37:43

Annie worked for Paddy and Mrs Daly; Paddy’s greyhounds later kept at the back. Watch from 07:44

former Reference point for Jim Barry’s. Watch from 29:01

Where Gerry goes for an hour some nights. Watch from 43:26

A lorry lit up like a Christmas tree to “jump start” Tadhg Griffin’s car Watch from 1:07:09

Had a meat counter. Tommy worked there from 1988. Watch from 29:01

1977 The lights went out in the house the night it burned Watch from 38:26

Drumshanbo Restaurant and tours, “huge to the area”. Watch from 54:13

A planned private distillery experience near St Patrick’s Well. Name not recovered. Watch from 08:25

opposite the Royal Bread came up from Carrick around midday and people queued for it; run by a Spellman woman Watch from 05:53

One of the town’s butchers in the eighties. Watch from 29:01

Patrick Street “Best doctor ever was in Boyle.” Watch from 46:59

Where everyone bought their clothes and shoes Watch from 06:42

the Green Tommy and Winnie Egan’s; the smell of bread and loaves for her grandmother Watch from 22:44

Every egg held up to a bulb in a box before it was packed. Watch from 52:57

Main dealer for Morris Oxfords and Morris Minors. Now run by his sister and Frank Healy. Watch from 03:41

now housing Bald tyres shaved and remoulded with rubber from Wales. Watch from 03:41

the Crescent, Boyle The family shop for up to 30 years; cable TV and electrical. Watch from 05:12

Slugs and Snails grew from the kitchen table to the bedroom, the enterprise centre, then their own office Watch from 17:52

Opened late on Fridays and Saturdays; straight down after the chipper Watch from 59:28

Noel’s summer job at 16 or 17 under Patsy Quinn: steel lockers, then aluminium windows. Name not recovered. Watch from 13:23

Where he bought valves to fix the family television at twelve Watch from 07:30

The main contractors on the restoration, who repaired the returned fireplace Watch from 26:35

The miniature Celtic cross for Saint-Witz was made there. Watch from 32:42

One of the employers lost to the town. Others named “Nair” and “Logan”, unconfirmed. Watch from 39:05

Ruth worked there for a while. Watch from 09:13

His earliest memory of the town, in the hot summer of 1976 Watch from 00:50

Where he bought a £300 guitar, “animal money” then Watch from 35:48

Chantelle came over with a plant on the tattoo shop’s opening day Watch from 59:17

Main Street The first supermarket in Boyle, possibly one of the first in the west of Ireland. Watch from 28:34

Waiting at 6am for McGowan’s bus; deer on the lawn; the squad car. Watch from 51:05

the snack bar Treats as a seven year old, from lovely people Watch from 04:00

Where the teenagers spent the school holidays on chips and ice cream. Watch from 18:46

Beside where Ryan’s Pharmacy was; the jukebox where you could watch the 45 come out Watch from 26:32

Sonny Gannon delivering milk by horse and sleigh in the snow of 1947. Watch from 18:55

Main Street Where the tournament money was spent on a cup. Watch from 05:28

“My grandfather had a grocery shop in Main Street.” Watch from 01:24

She practised for a few years after moving, before the children came Watch from 26:01

After school with his grandparents upstairs; Dick McGee’s book of old Boyle photos still in the shop Watch from 01:05

Opened September 2004 and ran five years. Now a herbal clinic. Called Karuna. Watch from 03:35

Cootehall One of about 20 local suppliers for the Lily and Max care packages Watch from 1:16:06

“Just down below where Daly’s was.” Poached Tommy for one day. Watch from 29:01

beside Creighton’s When the town was crawling and even taxis needed an office Watch from 43:35

Carrick Road, Boyle Worked there before the bank Watch from 54:38

Carrick Road His first job after school; McGrath first set up on the Green where Matt Burke is now Watch from 14:05

top of Patrick Street Her mother checked his accounts for him once a week Watch from 07:03

A brilliant little shop next door, much smaller than it became Watch from 16:14

Neutral line: keeping Lucozade Sport for him. Sensitive, see verification. Watch from 58:33

Purple and green chairs when she first saw it in 2016; nearly ten years of homemade food and Christmas dinners for people on their own Watch from 05:45

former St Joseph’s building The old school building after it was sold; made underwear. Watch from 36:51

Started 11 years ago with eight alpacas from Switzerland; farm visits and treks down the bog Watch from 16:37

Lough Key Forest Park Run by Paula and Dermot from 1985 to 1995, with a shop and tourist facility. Watch from 00:00

The family home and business 1985 to 1995; working the shop and waiting tables, and her 16th birthday party Watch from 04:38

A terrace overlooking MacDermot’s Castle, Castle Island and the harbour; it has outgrown its numbers Watch from 15:41

the arcade “Langen’s did lovely fruit and veg in there.” Watch from 07:34

Ballindoon The family lorries drew gravel from here and gave the boys a lift home. Watch from 04:12

Croissants and coffee ready for the balloon crews at seven. Watch from 22:24

Patrick Street Small shops of the time, and the half dozen eggs in a dancer’s pocket Watch from 24:19

the arcade Restaurant upstairs in the arcade. Watch from 06:52

Where Gerry and Jim Sharkey worked together. Watch from 09:15

His grandparents ran a newspaper shop and gave music lessons there from the late 1930s Watch from 05:50

the arcade In the arcade. Watch from 06:41

Where she got to know local artists; it later moved to An Ríoga Watch from 28:56

middle of town A start at the kind of community he hopes for Watch from 07:41

Bridge Street Hyperbaric oxygen, red light and PEMF, with structured water through the whole building Watch from 18:24

Main Street, Boyle Opened the June before recording. “I just kinda feel like I’m part of the town.” Business name not stated. Watch from 05:38

name not recovered Sitting outside for hours with a Mr Freeze. Name not recovered. Watch from 04:23

The girls there were delighted he was on the podcast Watch from 23:23

Mentioned; Tommy not sure if it had a meat counter then. Watch from 29:35

Worked there through school and college when the town was really busy; now too many vacant businesses Watch from 47:59

Where Forty Coats was often found Watch from 20:52

He plays every second weekend; lovely staff, amazing food, and people travel from all over Watch from 20:17

A café with a real urge to aim higher than you’d expect in a town of 4,000 Watch from 01:45

Shoe shop. Watch from 06:11

the arcade Upstairs first, then moved downstairs. Watch from 07:01

Newspapers, cola bottles and plastic grapes; Dymphna would keep you talking for half an hour Watch from 16:14

Guitar lessons at seven, sitting in a circle learning chords Watch from 25:29

opposite the Royal Rented from Willie Lister in 1986 and open within a week, with Gerry Mattimoe’s seats Watch from 15:44

Shoe shop. Watch from 06:11

later Emmett’s, now Sweeney’s Schoolboys climbed into the window to watch colour TV, and sets sold that afternoon Watch from 31:02

video rental A video every Saturday night, rewound before it went back Watch from 59:20

Two busy paper shops selling all the school stuff Watch from 06:09

on the corner Alongside Christy Wynne’s in his childhood Watch from 06:09

Renting videos. He wore out The Fugitive. Watch from 08:05

Marian’s and Bowles’s Shops people still come to town for, mother of the bride outfits and all Watch from 03:24

Bridge Street His father worked there from 14 and bought the house and business in 1965; many Boyle engagement rings came from it Watch from 05:06

Her florals during the Boyle Arts Festival, and a sale Watch from 12:06

Langan’s and Gannon’s Eggs Local suppliers; Gannon’s just outside Carrick Watch from 16:28

beside King House They made and mended the dance marquees Watch from 53:54

Their Boyle solicitor heard the rooster on their first half hour call Watch from 44:25

Four years on the switchboard before she married Watch from 02:01

unconfirmed name Slab toffee on the way to the boys’ school, opposite where Paddy Leonard lived Watch from 07:23

The Rangers bought their cigarettes there; messages from King House were passed through her Watch from 42:19

Robbed fifteen minutes after he left with the lodgement Watch from 37:33

Uptown Boutique was across from it. Watch from 08:27

in SuperValu Pat Brogan’s second pharmacy; on opening day he was a wannabe bouncer Watch from 25:06

unconfirmed name Jumping the gates after six; the guards chased them through the fields and gave them an escort back into town Watch from 28:58

Londis, unconfirmed Jane behind the deli; sandwiches for pensioners and school lunches. Watch from 21:30

Run by his sister; another one gone Watch from 59:30

Where they work together and came up with ERA Competitions Watch from 07:40

Ciaran’s workplace for 12 plus years; struggles to house new staff. Sensitive, see verification. Watch from 22:07

The Northern and the Ulster banks both had branches in Boyle Watch from 05:12

St Patrick Street Next door to Sheerin’s, John and Kaye O’Dowd’s house, now a shoe shop. Watch from 02:10

One of the town’s butchers in the eighties. Watch from 29:01

As a boy Christie helped Murt O’Leary develop films, where his love of photography began Watch from 15:50

His work placement turned into a job as news journalist, covering Sligo, North Leitrim and South Donegal Watch from 07:35

name not recovered Tom took a big bundle of post off John every morning. Name not recovered. Watch from 10:01

Patrick Street Aldi’s planned site: planning granted by the county council, then appealed by an objector from Offaly Watch from 00:31

Where the walk up to the cemetery starts Watch from 25:05

Londis, unconfirmed Friday pensioners on the stairs with a cup of tea. Watch from 21:30

An uninterrupted row of old shop fronts and signage drew her back on an Arts Council award Watch from 02:34

A part of the street’s history he fears will be demolished for a new shop Watch from 1:14:07

Greatmeadow His parents bought the house and shop; “it was famous for their ice cream.” Watch from 01:50

Medicine for the Bosnia aid suitcases; Boyle people gave generously, with Dan and Olive Kelly Kennedy Watch from 39:15

Carlo: the one independent butcher left in Boyle. Watch from 29:41

Video shops on Patrick Street and Main Street, after the cinema Watch from 26:26

Where Troy’s is now; his sister Eileen worked there Watch from 34:53

behind Carty’s garage off Chapel Street Opened November 1966 and employed Boyle people for many years. Watch from 40:14

Where Sissy the snake was bought and returned. Name not recovered. Watch from 31:45

Somewhere to sit down with a bowl of ice cream before the cinema Watch from 16:04

About five pence a gallon. Gone about 20 years. Watch from 24:39