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Not a Banshee in sight

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  • Rory Sherlock said:
    This view is from Achill, looking back across the Sound with the train station (left) and the Church of Ireland church (before it lost its tower) visible
  • Rory Sherlock said:
    Streetview: www.google.ie/maps/@53.9326284,-9.9233762,3a,22.9y,75.18h...
  • O Mac said:
    Post railway 1895...and that's a swing bridge if ever there was one.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Per eiretrains: Achill, Co.Mayo, is the terminus of the well know line from Westport, built by the Midland Great Western Railway in 1894/5 Looks rather new here.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Previously on this channel:
    All hands on deck at Achill Railway station.

No thatch in the Pike's?

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  • Rory Sherlock said:
    Glendarary House near Achill Sound: landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/property-sho... 6" Cassini Map: bit.ly/3mhg9Ql
  • Rory Sherlock said:
    William Pike of Glendarary, J.P. Barrister-at-Law, died in 1881 and was succeeded by his son, Richard James Pike. Major Richard James Pike of Glendarary died 29/11/1891 and was succeeded by his son, Richard Nicholson Pike. (Burke's Landed Gentry, 1898, pages 367-8): babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858027897986&vie...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    "The only resident landlord on the island, Mr. William Pike ...", from a very disturbing contemporary Freeman's article about famine on Achill Island in 1880 - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/133486960?searchTerm=p...
  • Rory Sherlock said:
    Funnily enough, the only person with the surname Pike who was enumerated in Mayo in the 1901 census was a German-born Church of Ireland jeweller by the name of Eanos Pike who was living as a lodger with the McNamara family in a three-roomed thatched house at Slievemore on Achill Island, not to far away from Glendarary!
  • Rory Sherlock said:
    Looking at the housing and building returns on the 1901 and 1911 censuses, I can't find a house to match Glendarary - there are six pages of records from the townland of Sraheens, but nothing of this size - could the house have been uninhabited as early as 1900?