He was held for a short time at Laird's Hotel opposite the Market Square[3] before being transferred to the nearby Derry Gaol.
The Wolfe Tone Bar was established in his honour and is located on Lower Main Street on the site of the old Garda barracks.
The Lower Main Street pavements have since fallen into a higgledy-piggledy bad state of repair which has led to calls from the local council for re-paving to be carried out.
[7] On 3 May 2019, the 114th Infantry Battalion of the Irish Army marched through the town in advance of its UNIFIL deployment to Southern Lebanon.
In February 2020, the Donegal News reported that "from the Quiet Moment down to the Lower Main Street roundabout there are around 40 vacant commercial properties, not including any commercial vacancies in shopping centres or on side streets"; this total included five consecutive vacant commercial units on the corner of Main Street and Market Square, including a barber shop and the former discount shop "Pounds & Pence", located beside the "Funland" amusement arcade.
The structure is built spirally on a slope so, if approached from the Main Street entrance, the visitor, when making their way through the complex, descends into the ground via a series of escalators.
The same side of the street features the Ulster Bank, on the junction with Market Square, and, below this, Veritas and Clarkes Newsagent.
The Letterkenny Library and Arts Centre is located on the other side of the street, on the junction with Oliver Plunkett Road, onto which its main entrance opens.
At the street's conclusion, past Larkin's Lane, can be seen Letterkenny's earliest Dunnes Stores outlet, while the Tin Tai, a prominent and often busy Chinese restaurant, is also nearby, on the right turn towards Convent Road.
[22] R. McCullagh Jewellers, which dates from 1869, is situated nearby on the same side of the street, between Market Square and Church Lane.
Occupants in nearby buildings were evacuated while attendants at the Wolfe Tone Bar were kept inside for fear of igniting the gas.