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The termini of The Mall are punctuated by the Mall Quay at one end and the entrance to Main Street and The Diamond (of Plantation origin) at the other end.<\/p>\n<p>This project will enhance aspects of the public realm of The Mall using traditional building, craft and artistic skills. Traditional hand-painted and \u2018ghost\u2019 signage will be enhanced by a traditional signwriter, a mural will be created on a traditional lime-rendered gable, window displays will provide meanwhile uses for shop windows and make use of the skills of a carpenter and interior designer, and ventilation units will be artistically painted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The importance of The Mall as a thoroughfare is alluded to by poet and former resident William Allingham (1824-1889) in his poem \u2018Adieu to Belashanny\u2019 (also known as \u2018The Emigrant\u2019s Adieu to Ballyshannon\u2019 and \u2018The Winding Banks of Erne\u2019) as he recalls \u201cNo more on pleasant evenings we\u2019ll saunter down The Mall.\u201d Paralleling The Mall is The Back Mall that forms a circuitous route between the town centre and the Mall Quay popular with residents out for a walk and tourists out exploring.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16126,"template":"","class_list":["post-16125","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ballyshannon\u2019s Creative Public Realm - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Mall (An M\u00e1l) in Ballyshannon displays a mix of eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century buildings and some of earlier origins.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/ballyshannons-creative-public-realm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ballyshannon\u2019s Creative Public Realm - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Mall (An M\u00e1l) in Ballyshannon displays a mix of eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century buildings and some of earlier origins. 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