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"Three drinks of water (holy) taken on three consecutive occasions from The Bishops Skull. This skull is believed to belong to one of three bishops who were murdered for their faith in Penal times. This particular skull is in a very extraordinary state of preservation and s kept at a house named Rielly, near to the village of Mahera in Co. Cavan. The skull is requisitioned from all parts of Ireland and the cure is well recognised." The Schools Collection volume 0721 page 212. www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5009031/4979138 Someone on "Boards.ie" claims to have the bishops skull in Athboy. "The "Bishops Skull", a faith cure for whooping cough, which existed in Cavan between Virginia and Kells has now passed into my care following the death of Peggy, the lady who honoured it for many years. She was my late husband's aunt. We are keen to keep it available to everyone who needs it. So it is now in Athboy. Word of mouth will also lead those who need it to it but the internet is a good place to start. The O'Reilly family. It is free to all who believe in its power.“

Lurgan is not between Virginia and Kells, it is the other side of Virginia, so the skull may have had another home between 1943 and boards.ie, and this is probably not Peggy.

Mahera, on the other hand, is between Virginia and Kells.

The Irish Tourism Association seems to have had a very odd sense of what might attract tourists. Did they not know that there was a War Emergency on in 1943?

In 1911. there is one Reilly in Stramatt townland, Christopher Reilly farmer and merchant, living in a private dwelling and shop, which would be at Mahera crossroads.

Love these old pictures~

Okay. Ill start with the easy ones Right to left: Packard ( like it says! ) Chevrolet ? Studebaker ( again, like it says ! ) And ...Buick?

Andy If you use the Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.19107 link to the left, the radiator reads Stutz, and I think it's the 1915 Bulldog. www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z16887/Stutz-Model-4F.aspx The cars also have big L's and pennants and signage for the Lincoln Highway, a project for a coast to coast highway. This trip's official title was the Lincoln Highway Motion Picture Film Caravan. Here is a short description of the trip these cars are beginning: "The Lincoln Highway Association also arranged a tour to the Panama-Pacific Exposition. The primarypurpose was to make a motion picture of the road as part of the association’s campaign to keep the public interested in the highway. The tour began in New York on May 15, 1915, and reached San Francisco at the end of August. According to the association’s official history: Everywhere elaborate preparations were made to show each city at its best . . . . Automobile parades, scenes of road improvement, dedications of bridges and of newly constructed sections of highway, processions of school-children, every sort of function, celebration and activity connected and unconnected with highway building was arranged for them to photograph. The association, in fact, had to ask communities to replace the fire and police displays with “scenes having a real interest, scenes tending to make it safe, easy, and pleasant to come your way and call on you.” Between cities, the party busied itself taking photographs of scenery, historic sites, road construction, maintenance, improvement, and anything else tending to interest the traveler and stimulate touring. When the touring automobiles reached San Francisco, they were placed on display between the Transportation Palace and the Palace of Manufacturers. After the exposition, the Lincoln Highway Association used the film in an eastbound publicity tour of one-night stands. “It met with high enthusiasm everywhere,” according to the official history. [The Lincoln Highway: The Story of a Crusade That Made Transportation History, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1935, p. 122-124]" www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/not2.pdf

Art Siegel OOOOOH-- NICE! Thanks so much and thank you for all the information! I tried enlarging and fiddling on photoshop but got nothing! Any idea what the cutie on the end left is !?

No.. it might be possible to find out by looking through accounts of the trip. Sadly, the film that was made is almost completely destroyed now, as it was not transferred from nitrate to safety film stock. The story here: lvgaldieri.wordpress.com/tag/three-mile-picture-show/ And that is H.C. Ostermann, a Lincoln Highway official, driving the Stutz. quod.lib.umich.edu/l/linchigh/x-lhc2813/LHC2813?from=inde...

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In response to Beachcomber's note - I read once that there were a number of warehouses on Kirribilli Point. A possibility?

John Cowper Found it! According to this 1917 interactive map it was the "Pastoral Ass[ociation] Wool Stores" - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.map-gmod71-a3-sd&rg... What a strange place to build a wool store - probably why it did not last long.

That must have been the reference I had picked up in the past ... good detective work!

The Pastoral Finance Association Wool Stores had a major fire in 1921 which destroyed the building. Additional fire appliances had to be brought over from the city by vehicular ferry. The building was left a ruin for some years until apartments and the Hayes Street ferry wharf were established in the late 1920's.