Ballyfermot is 70 - a look back in time

This year Ballyfermot is 70. At Candle Week in Cherry Orchard Parish on Tuesday 27th Feb 2018 we took a look back through time. Special thanks to Ken Larkin for photos.

[@ciaranburke3243]

Lovely 👌

[@29brendus]

I was baptized in Ballyfermot where my parents bunked in with the 'relis' in 1956 on Loch Conn Rd. When I was 1yo we moved to sunny Finglas. When I was about 7yo, 'me and me Da' stood on Bachelors Walk in the freezing cold waiting on a no. 34 bus to Finglas. As we waited, stamping our feet, beside the 'roundy' men's toilet, we counted 15 no. 79 buses passing us as they came around O'Connell Bridge. 'me Da' said "maybe we shudda stayed in Ballyer".

[@kevinmalone9673]

Ballyfermot stew house remember it well and only a field that s now a college .

[@peternolan5632]

i remember those street lights the curve shape