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If it is Kate Kearney's cottage the mountain behind has shrunk a lot since this photograph was taken. www.google.ie/maps/@52.040109,-9.631741,3a,75y,93.07h,80....

Beara Peninsula That's roughly where it's marked on the 25": maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,488060,588826,7,9

I guess it must have been ten yards further up the road: www.google.ie/maps/@52.039742,-9.63208,3a,75y,114.11h,85.... Edit: No, the modern OSI shows they're in the same place: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,488032,588798,7,3

This photograph was not taken at what is now Kate Kearneys but here. www.google.ie/maps/@51.999878,-9.644749,3a,65.4y,221.41h,...

Looks a bit different to the photo on the Kate Kearney's Cottage website too.

Great shot but looking at the line of litter along the bank they look like environmental vandals. Those Victorians certainly left a lot to be desired!!!

May I ask: Where do you find these images?

Swordscookie I'd hope they did pick it all up, or that at least the guides did...

Ah, I'd guess that their sense of litter-buggery, or vandalism was different from our own! Wouldn't you? And that someone among them picked up the paper... which would have degraded in any case... Cut the auld guys a bit o' slack..

Richard Eric In all areas of our photographic collections, Richard. The Pic of the Day is the most straightforward, in that I'm searching for photos taken on a particular date. The other photos that are uploaded every day can be serendipitous finds; have subject matter that I hope will be interesting to all of you; photos that I know some of you will know a hell of a lot more about than we do, so that when you comment, we learn more and can add that information to our NLI catalogue. Some photos I happen on because of other projects that are going on here at the National Library. Sometimes it's as simple as the fact that I have seen a photo and love it (or because it makes me laugh), and I hope it'll have the same effect on others....