Normally I share pictures which have a (slight) streak of beauty about them. This has nothing of the sort.
But I was drawn to this now-abandoned building which has got progressively more decayed every year since I've lived in this city. You could even call it anti-beauty.
Known as Canavan House it is located at the city end of Nun's Island in Galway city. In the early 20-noughties it was home to the Galway Centre For Unemployed / Galway Peoples Resource Centre. Eventually they closed or moved, and plans to convert it to a boutique hotel never got off the ground.
Since then nature has been working hard to take over the site. Now, even the hoardings look like they need protective covers, and I wouldn't be surprised to see a tree rising up through the roof space one day.
