I was on my way home one night when it dawned on me that maybe I should take a few photographs of Ballacolla. It was late enough and the light fading so these are perhaps not the best shots of the village itself and I can replace them in time but for the moment they're ok. Ballacolla is a village on a cross-roads going from Abbeyleix to Rathdowney or from Durrow to Roscrea. It's pretty with a few shops and a few pubs, a police station the old graveyard beside the Catohlic Church and the new graveyard is called St. Fintans and just on the edge of the village on the Rathdowney road. I've included one photo of the RC church which is not good because of the way the light reflects over the graveyard - also a Ballacolla cow because I was taking a shot of the stepping stones into the field beside the graveyard! I;d never known that there was a thatched cottage in Ballacolla before the night that I stopped to take these photos and I've driven along that Durrow road many's a time. Just goes to show the kind of things which you can see regularly and not notice because you aren't interested!

Durrow road, Ballacolla	Main street, Ballacolla	O'Leary's pub, Ballacolla	RC Church, lighting	Roman Catholic Church and Graveyard, Ballacolla
Steps to field, cattle & back of Graveyard	Thatched cottage, Ballacolla - blurred