Arran Street, Ballina, Mayo, Ireland The next Irish Woolworths store to be opened was Ballina in 1953. They traded here for 31 years, closing when Woolworths left Ireland in 1984. With thanks to Stephen Nolan who has sent in the below information and photos. The Ballina store 823 was probably the most remote in the…
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Thurles Woolworths – Store 821
33/34 Liberty Square, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, Ireland Woolworths opened their 18th Irish store in Thurles, Co, Tipperary, in 1953. Source: Love Thurles Note from Stephen Nolan: This store closed in the early 1970s and was occupied by Heatons until relatively recently. County Tipperary had three Woolworths stores – map of stores from 1969 shows Thurles,…
Mullingar Woolworths – Store 809
18 Oliver Plunkett Street, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, Ireland Woolworths opened in Mullingar, in the Midlands area of Ireland, on 6th August 1953. Source: Woolworths History and Photos Source: RTE The store closed in 1984 when Woolworths left Ireland. As with the Galway store, it traded here for 31 years. Today you will find in its…
Galway Woolworths – Store 808
36 Eyre Square, Galway, Ireland Woolworths opened in Galway, Ireland, in 1953. With thanks to Stephen Nolan who sent me all the below information about the store, which traded for 31 years. Source: Woolworths History and Photos Store 808 Galway was purpose built opening in 1953 on the site of the former Royal Hotel in…
Bray Woolworths – Store 801
10-12 Main Street, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland In 1953 Woolworths opened their 15th Irish store in the seaside town of Bray. Source: Greystones Guide From Woolworths History & Pictures, this is a staff photo from Staff 1969 after the extension and modernisation of their store. Mr C Callaghan is sat in the centre of the…
Tralee Woolworths (Ireland) – Store 775
23-24 The Mall, Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland Woolworths opened in Tralee, Ireland, in 1952. It was the 13th Irish store and opened on The Mall. Below are some photos from across the years. Source: Facebook Maher, J. Source: Facebook Historical Tralee and surrounding areas Source: Historical Tralee and surrounding areas Source: Facebook Love Tralee Source:…
Wexford Woolworths (Ireland) – Store 773
29 Main Street South, Wexford, Co. Wexford, Ireland Woolworths opened their 12th Irish store in April 1952 in the historic town of Wexford. Source: Avery, K. (Woolworths History and Photos) If you have a read of Kevin’s post here, you can read about the mysterious tunnel that led from the basement to Wexford Harbour. The…
Drogheda Woolworths – Store 770
6/7 West Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth A92 XV12 Ireland Woolworths opened in Drogheda in Ireland in January 1950. Source: Old Drogheda Society After 34 years, this store closed in 1984 along with all the other Irish Woolworths stores. Thank you to Stephen Nolan for this information: “770 Drogheda must have been reskinned in the 1960s….
Clonmel Woolworths – Store 446
74 O’Connell Street, Clonmel, Co.Tipperary, Ireland Woolworths opened in Clonmel, Ireland in 1931 on O’Connell Street. Below is a lovely close-up of the shop windows at Christmas time in 1967 – the posters reads ‘Your Christmas store’ and another poster says ‘This store will be open all day Thurs 8th Dec’. Source: RTE Archives Source:…
Waterford Woolworths – Store 418
31 – 35 Barronstrand Street, Waterford, Ireland The nineth Irish Woolworths store opened in Waterford in 1930. An adapted version of the classic Woolworths architecture, with the pediment made of brick. On the shopfront, it looks as though they had kept a section on the left side to be leased out to another business. Source:…
Sligo Woolworths – Store 414
34 O’Connell Street, Sligo, Ireland Woolworths opened its eighth Irish store in 1930 in Sligo. It was on O’Connell Street in a small purpose-built store, with the classic architecture, symmetrical with the central pediment. Source: Facebook Source: Facebook Source: Facebook Source: Facebook After 54 years of trading from this location, the store closed in 1984…
Kilkenny Woolworths – Store 407
91 – 92 High Street, Kilkenny, Ireland Woolworths opened it’s seventh Irish store in 1930 in Kilkenny. It was on the High Street in what looks like a very old building. Source: Kilkenny Archives Having discovered the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage online, it says the building is a “Terraced four-bay two-storey building with attic,…
Tipperary Woolworths – Store 337
There have been two Store 337 Woolworths stores. The first was on Commercial Road in East London (E1) that opened in 1928. I can’t find any photos of it though. Sadly the store was destroyed by bombing in World War 2 and never rebuilt – presumably because it was too close to the Whitechapel branch…
Dundalk Woolworths – Store 331
91 – 93 Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk, Co. Louth, Ireland Woolworths opened their sixth Irish store in Dundalk in 1928. It was on Clanbrassil Street. From these photos, it looks like there was a 1950s/60s makeover looking at the style of the building. The oversized text on the fascia makes an appearance here too. Source: Facebook…
Limerick Woolworths – Store 97
37 – 39 O’Connell Street, Limerick, Ireland The 97th Woolworths store opened in Limerick, Ireland on O’Connell Street in 1921. The building was the Limerick Furnishing Warehouse. Source: Historic England Extract from Limerick.com of Limerick Woolworths in the 1940s/50s: “Woolworth’s now I can remember quite a number of stories about that store especially at Christmas….
Dun Laoghaire (Kingstown) Woolworths – Store 90
89 Lower Georges Street, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland The 90th Woolworths store opened in Kingstown in Ireland, in 1920. In 1921, the town got renamed Dun Laoghaire (pronounced Dunleary). In the below photo you can see the store on the right with the three pointed roofs. Source: Historical Picture Archive The store traded here for 64…
Cork Woolworths – Store 83
39 – 41 Patrick Street, Cork, Ireland Woolworths opened its third Irish store in Cork on Patrick Street on 6th February 1920. It was quite a large corner building. Source: Historic England In 1922-23 trading was suspended for 18 months due to a labour dispute. Source: Twitter Cork Woolworths was a popular, busy store. Below…
Dublin (Henry Street) Woolworths – Store 76
18-19 Henry Street, Dublin 1, Ireland Woolworths opened their second Dublin store on Henry Street in 1918. The building was purpose-built, as the building that had previously been on the site was destroyed in the Easter Rising of April 1916. You can see the year ‘1917’ in the gable as this was when it was…
Dublin (Grafton Street) Woolworths – Store 31
65-68 Grafton Street, Dublin, Ireland Store 31 was the first ever Irish store, opening in Grafton Street, Dublin, on 23rd April 1914. It was on a corner site in fine Edwardian red brick buildings, seen on the left of this postcard. Source: Woolworths Museum Opening in Ireland had its obstacles. The IRA formed in 1919…
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