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06 Sept 2025

MAGICAL: The Harry Potter style bookshop in Mayo town

Have a read just like the young wizard under the stairs in Tertulia bookshop in Westport

MAGICAL: The Harry Potter style bookshop in Mayo town

The Tertulia Bookshop located on the Westport Quay

A Mayo bookshop offers a magical reading experience. Probably the most famous young wizard, Harry Potter, would get flashbacks to his youth.

And there are many children (and adults) who would love to feel a bit like young Harry. 

The Tertulia bookshop on the Quay in Westport might help there: They have a cosy reading room under the stairs, and guests can sit down there and read.

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Granted, as Harry Potter fans know, the little room (see photo below) under the stairs would probably not spark outright happy memories as his foster family, the Dursleys, did not treat Harry very well.

But in the Westport bookshop, friendly reading atmosphere is guaranteed.

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The little reading room under the stairs in Westport's Tertulia Bookshop. 

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