ballsbridge

Given the amount of horseriding boots on display, and the fact that the photos before and after in the sequence are of the jumping enclosure, I'd say it's a Horse Show.

Sharon Corbet I was thinking that the boater indicated a warmer season and Spring in Ireland is rarely that warm:-)

Swordscookie I would wonder whether summer in Ireland is that warm :-)

It can't be between 1914 and 1919 because there were no Horse Shows thanks to WWI. "The Horse Show Committee made the decision due to the continued occupation of their grounds at Ballsbridge by the British military."

1907 to 1912? Watson’s Clontarf Nurseries were in Clontarf from at least 1900, but didn’t open their Nassau Street branch - pardon the pun - until August 1907 (Leinster Express). They provided all floral displays for the Royal Visit to Dublin in 1911, from building decoration to bouquets for the visiting dignitaries. Can’t find anything after November 1912 (Irish Independent) for them being at Nassau Street, but will keep checking.

This may be the opening day, May 16 1896, of the new electric tram service, where a cavalcade of car and trailers carried the first passengers to Dalkey. Location is near their depot, the chimney is part of their power station, where electricity was generated for distribution locally and to the substations in Blackock and Dalkey. "An octaganol brick chimney, 111 ft. 8 in. in height, and 6 ft. In diameter at the top, carries off the furnace gases" archive.org/details/electricrailways00dawsrich/page/372/m...

wow, open top deck ! that must have been an experience on a wet and windy day. fascinating to see, I am a complete novice to bus / tram history

Here is the depot on the 25" OSI map. The site is a Mercedes garage now in Streetview.

Looks like the chimney is still there, surrounded by modernity - in 2013 via picturesbyJOE

Niall McAuley This site has long associations with the early days of Irish transport. MSL Motors is still owned by the O'Flaherty family and is where the family patriarch set up VW assembly after the war in the old tram depot. They built the first beetle to be assembled outside of Germany. It's probably in their museum in Wolfsburg. Edit: O'Flaherty obtained both the UK and Irish consessions for VW and Mercedes during a visit to the first Earls Court motor show held after the war. Apparently, nobody in the UK would touch them due to anti German feelings.

The catalogue says Rathdowney, Co. Laois

"Thomas Prior (1680 – 21 October 1751) was an Irish author, known as the founder of the Royal Dublin Society."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Prior

catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000313113

Confirmed by the dib:
Prior, Thomas (1681–1751), founder of the Dublin Society and philanthropist, was born in Garrison House, Rathdowney, Queen's Co. (Laois)

www.dib.ie/biography/prior-thomas-a7508

There is a townland called Garrison near Erril, not a million miles west of Rathdowney, with just one house on the historic maps.

www.logainm.ie/en/28727

There is still a farm and farm buildings here, I can't tell if this house is still standing in some form: maps.app.goo.gl/rCErac7aHLivgaJEA