bessboroughhouse

5 photos tagged bessboroughhouse, from 1 member of Flickr Commons.

When were these photos taken?

1908

1912

80% of these photos are geotagged.

Tags that often appear on the same photos:

Photos tagged bessboroughhouse:

Loading photos…

Enable JavaScript to browse these photos, or see them on flickr.com.

The last upload was September 2020.

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos:

28 older comments, and then…
O Mac said:
de Neuflize? If this is the same Baron Jean de Neuflize (1850-1928) he was a French banker who's main claim to fame was winning a bronze at the Paris 1900 Olymipics for Mail Coach driving.
bawdy kittens said:
As O Mac says I suspect this is the Parisian banker Baron Jean Poupart de Neuflize and his wife. Their only daughter Roberte (born 1892) married Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, son of Edward Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon (later Earl of Bessborough).
O Mac said:
Possibly taken at Bessborough , Piltown, Co Kilkenny. Poole has our Baron there with group and another Bessborough photograph of a vase/urn matching the one in the photo.
derangedlemur said:
O Mac The map matches, anyway: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,646779,622713,12,9
O Mac said:
Bessborough was burnt down in 1923 and rebuilt 1929 to accommodate use as convent and then became an agricultural college, post-1944. (NIAH) So 1901 to Pre 1923.. His homburg would suggest post 1910

46 older comments, and then…
XPAT-Polska said:
It's a grand shot for sure.
derangedlemur said:
Jug-ears at the back there looks familiar. Did we have him in a different photo?
Probable Ice said:
no kitchen staff in this one. even among the servants there was a class system. wonderful picture.
derangedlemur said:
I think I've seen him (or someone who looked like him) in a WWI photo somewhere.
Micheál Cattigan said:
wild guess; Back row 2nd from left. driver.

2 older comments, and then…
Swordscookie said:
She looks more like a legal eagle up at the Kings Inns! Very good shot though.
La Belle Province said:
The quality of mercy is not strained.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
La Belle Province "... It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven, upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: it blesseth him that gives and him that takes ..."
Niall McAuley said:
She has a page at thepeerage: born 1888, married Windham Baring in 1913, 3 children Robin, Mark and Patrick. Husband died in 1922, she remarried to Ralph Henry Voltelin Cavendish in 1926, and had another son Edward Simon Myles Cavendish. She lived until 1984!
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Niall McAuley Keep up the great work, much appreciated.