Overview
James Lyons — Main Street is recorded as hotel in Mayo. Terraced four-bay three-storey hotel, extant 1893, originally with shopfront to right ground floor. Renovated, post-1912, with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Interior including (ground floor): entrance hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors
People and work
The saved account records: Terraced four-bay three-storey hotel, extant 1893, originally with shopfront to right ground floor.
How it changed
The saved account records: Renovated, post-1912, with replacement shopfront inserted to ground floor.
What survives
The saved account records: Rendered wall (ground floor) on rendered chamfered plinth
Why it mattered
James Lyons — Main Street matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: An hotel regarded as an integral component of the built heritage of Ballyhaunis with the architectural value of the composition, one annotated as "Commercial Hotel" on the second edition of the Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1893; published 1896), suggested by such attributes as the rectilinear plan form; and the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual effect with those openings showing sleek "stucco" refinements. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the… 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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