Step back in time with old village shop

GUEST’S shop with its central cast iron stove was a focal point in the village of Shinrone, Co Offaly, for over a 100 years.

The advent of the supermarket put paid to the old-style grocer’s shop and Guest’s closed their doors in 1981, locking up a store that had remained unchanged since it was first built.

But it’s all still there today: the stove with its central flue, the pitch pine counter and rows of hand-made shelves, the office snug and the hand written sign atop the split-pane shop window.