Overview
handball alley — Pontoon is recorded as handball alley in Mayo. The saved source gives an exact reason to look beyond the map label: Handball alley, extant 1908[?], with overgrown coursed rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter retaining sections of rendered surface finish.
Why it was built
The label handball alley gives the safest clue to purpose or form. It does not by itself prove the exact building method, daily use, age or sequence of changes at this place.
People and work
The short source does not safely name the people, events or traditions tied to this exact point. A famous nearby story is not attached without evidence that it belongs here.
How it changed
The saved wording does not establish one complete story of attack, rebuilding, abandonment, damage or later change. No single cause is claimed without evidence.
What survives
The saved source records: Handball alley, extant 1908[?], with overgrown coursed rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter retaining sections of rendered surface finish.
Why it mattered
handball alley — Pontoon matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A dilapidated handball alley allegedly erected for recreational use by officers stationed at the adjacent constabulary barrack (see 31306003) and regarded as an interesting component of the early twentieth-century architectural heritage of Pontoon. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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