When you check in at the Hotel Meyrick, Eyre Square, Galway, you will find two rather striking clocks located either side of the Hotel Meyrick Reception Desk.
George Dobbyn is responsible for the Clock to the right of reception. George a watch, clock and chronometer maker whose manufacturing workshop was at 14 Wicklow Street, Dublin circa 1845 to 1854. This particular piece is estimated to be from circa. 1850.
"Watchmaker and Clockmaker to Her Majesty's offices and the Irish Railways." In 1875 he was advertising as 'Watch Clock & Timepiece Makers to the Hon. Board of Public Works and Irish railways'.
How fitting it is now, that this clock now stands tall, overlooking Eyre Square nestled by the window of the former "Railway Hotel".
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