Things stuck together with black tape. Old broken crockery reassembled by Kieran Tuohy in the Irish Workhouse Centre, Portumna. When an obvious quick fix speaks louder than a careful repair. Like this display the old workhouse buildings held shattered people.

A selection of vintage ceramics and pottery from the Irish Workhouse Centre, Portumna, reassembled by Kieran Tuohy. These will form a central part of a new exhibition about Shattered Lives in 2024. We are always interested in acquiring Workhouse related artefacts for our museum.

This is an unusual request - I am looking for an early 20th century Sister of Mercy habit and cowl for a museum installation.

This interesting tabernacle is located in Camus Church in Connemara. I am trying to identify the metalworker who sculpted it.

Interesting carved Face on a graveslab in Drumacoo, South Galway.

The Edinburgh examples are wonderful. I guess our large stone ledgers did the same thing. Good to hear from you.

I am still looking for information on the location of dovecotes in County Galway. I have many examples recorded, but feel that there are likely others I have missed. They are generally found in the walled gardens & demesnes of the large houses. Email: [email protected]

Some late 15th-century lead cames in the Palace Museum, Rhodes.

A lavabo for hand washing beside a Muslim mosque in Rhodes.

A turf drying stand in Inishbofin. These drying stands/walls/tiles can present dolifferrntly from location to location. Thanks to John O' Halloren for confirming this example.

I am looking for a recommendation for a hand held non-contact document scanner to copy a fragile set of records. A standard flat bed is unsuitable.

Death of St. Germain stained glass window (c.1244-47) in Winchester College. From Chapel of Saint Germain-des-Prìs, Paris.

Is it a sow? A gargoyle on Bessier's cathedral.

Swans on the flooded callows in Clonfert.

Nothing evokes the memory of a family like an old fireplace. This one is in Egan's old house in Clonfert Callows. It still retains its crane and iron grate. The red painted brickwork was a common embellishment. The fireplace was the central focus in the household.

A late medieval female head above the chancel arch in Clonfert Cathedral. Could it be the Virgin Mary or perhaps a female patron? We know that the Butlers of Ormond had a reason to have their Coat of Arms carved on the chancel arch.

Model of Clonfert medieval doorway in Galway City Museum. Romanesque and late medieval arches.

Late medieval window above the west doorway of Loughrea Carmelite Friary. A griffon acts as a decorative stop to the left of the window while a wyvern is found on its right.

St Michael the Archangel functioning as a weeper on the O' Crean tomb in the Dominican friary in Sligo.

Head of an elaborate seventeenth-century grave-slab with Fleur de Lis terminals in Ardrahan medieval graveyard (Co. Galway). The original grave-slab would have been an elongated coffin-shaped slab that likely had a stepped Calvary base typical of the period and region.