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The boat is the Ovoca built in 1908 in Arklow, later fishing out of Balbriggan.

Scenery looks pretty rugged - further West than Arklow, I'd say. I note a coastguard station with flagstaff.

Taken at Castletownbere I'd say - This part of the harbour is now filled in, but that's the Workhouse in the background and the profile of the hill matches the modern Streetview www.google.ie/maps/@51.6508038,-9.9102059,3a,75y,80.01h,8...

The Coastguard station in the photo wasn't there when the 25" Ordnance Survey map was created, so that may provide some dating evidence. The NIAH suggest it was built circa 1910, so this photo must be later. www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&...

There's some more info on the Ovoca at the bottom of the page here, as well as some photos of it later in Balbriggan harbour.

Has that wild atlantic way look - Donegal, Galway or Kerry?

I would be more specific, Ireland..

I see a telegraph or electricity pole half-way between the white cottage and the left-hand side of the image. Having played with the colour levels a bit, I also think I see a black car at the base of the pole, facing end on to the camera. Perhaps a date towards the latter end of the range?

Hard to say with any exactitude, but it looks a bit like the wibbly mountain at Adrigole: www.google.com/maps/@51.69349,-9.7217963,3a,75y,274.45h,9...

Taken from around here, I guess, if it is: www.google.com/maps/@51.6784598,-9.732316,3a,34.6y,295.79... Only further over, so the sea is in it.

Streetview of gatelodge. NIAH page for the gatelodge, which is now part of the Glengarriff Nature Reserve.

ROCHE'S ROYAL HOTEL on rear of sidecar might help with dating ... catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000339154

Have a sticky-beak at Lord Bantry's Lodge, on a river island nearby - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000325209 www.glengarriff-lodge.com/about-us/history-of-the-lodge/

Thanks Sharon Corbet and beachcomber australia. I've updated the map and tags. Unless the "Roche's Royal Hotel" had specific and confirmed opening/closing dates, I don't suppose we'll be able to definitively refine the date range by much. Although the fashions would seem to suggest that we haven't strayed much into the 20th century here....

I had a look at the Guy's and Slater's directories yesterday, and they weren't any help with dates. The Roche family operated a hotel in Glengariff from before the start of the range (at least early 1860s) until after the end of the range (into 1920s). So the sign on the back of the tourist car doesn't help.

That'd be here, I reckon: www.google.ie/maps/@51.621496,-9.9656728,3a,75y,200.94h,9...

OSI: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,463874,542822,11,7 There's a gap in the 25", so we can't see what the barrier in the sea is, or whether there's a fish saltery there. Perhaps they're smuggling toffee in barrels.

derangedlemur Pulleen Harbour on the Beara Peninsula. How did you know!!??

Stuart The two figures are wearing distinctively west-cork caps, while the man is sporting a type of moustache common to the Castletownbere area. The barrels are of the rope tied type favoured to the west of Castletownbere over the more expensive iron bound examples used by the poshos to the east. More prosaically, it looks like west Cork, and a quick scan of the OSI does the rest. It took three or four goes, since I started in Glengarriff and searched west, so a certain amount of luck involved.

Flickr is sometimes amazing! In 2017 via Willi Thiel Wonderful looking place ... a smuggler's delight.