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Read All About It, via 'The Irish Sod' - theirishsod.blogspot.com/2012/12/irelands-bethlehem.html

Google Satellite - maps.app.goo.gl/a84JpjT8F4ysgCGz9
53.540924, -7.871162

There is a record at the NIAH which agrees with the beachcombers source: occupied for just 10 years until burnt in 1642, after which the nuns moved to Athlone.

A Madonna statue of bog oak from the convent survives in Galway: poorclares.ie/our-lady-of-bethlehem-athlone-madonna

The building was featured in a full-page article in the Evening Herald (Dublin) Thursday 24 December 1992.

Last year. Poor Clare nuns from around the world visited the ivy -clad ruins in Co Westmeath when the order celebrated the 350th anniversary of the flight of the nuns who escaped to Galway by taking to boats on Lough Ree.

It also mentions the Streven family, on whose farm it stands, who had cleared the ivy and received many letters from nuns who had visited.

Afraid not, I think the house was demolished

"ARDCANDRISK HOUSE:
HAUNTED AND ABANDONED
The house was located just off the Ferrycarrig to Killurin road.
Elizabeth Deane, known as ‘Lady Dane’, was a daughter of Hamilton Grogan of Johnstown Castle. An animal lover, she had the swan drinking trough installed in the Faythe. When her husband died, her cousin Florence moved into Ardcandrisk as her companion. Lady Dane later bequeathed the house to Florence.
When the house passed to Nathaniel Cookman of Monart House, he claimed to have been visited by the ghost of Florence one night. From then on, Cookman refused to spend another night in the house and instead slept in his boat on the Slaney. He finally abandoned the mansion and allowed it to fall into ruin. ...

via - www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=407149120701234&set=a.10...

Elizabeth and Florence at home in the 1911 census

Here is 'Elizabeth Geraldine Grogan-Morgan' at The Peerage - www.thepeerage.com/p31659.htm#i316583

She married this fellow in 1847 - www.thepeerage.com/p31652.htm#i316520

I don't think the young people in shot are Elizabeth and Florence at any date. Nor are they the servants.

The catalogue says rural village but the buildings say Town to me.

Niall McAuley Agreed!

Niall McAuley It's the Krazy Kataloguers in Library Towers once again!

Any clues from the shop names? Looks like "Household ......." on the shop name at the street corner. Cannot quite read the name on the shop front behind the cart.

Hassett at #9, I think, and Household Bazaar, maybe