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Keane's Farm Machinery has been an established family-run business for the last 30 years.

In the early days, farmers killed their own livestock, and in urban areas the killing was done by butchers. These victuallers would hang raw carcasses of meat outside their shops to show how fresh they were and to attract customers. It was only when the city fathers built an abattoir at the junction of Newtownsmyth and Bowling Green that slaughtering became subject to veterinary inspection and control in Galway. Our photograph was taken in 1966 and shows sheep awaiting their turn to enter the slaughterhouse through the grill gateway. They had already been in the yard for five days. The yard was connected to the abattoir buildings.

Ardagh Agri in Ballina has been selling Ford, New Holland and Fiat tractors as well as all types of machinery to the farming community and beyond for more than 20 years. Experts in agricultural parts and services, Ardagh are specialists in the New Holland brand but also source and supply all other models.