bog

Looks like between Maam and Leenaun somewhere...

Very sad photograph, hopefully they were living in the little cottage down the road.

That was how the poor lived. It is their home made of sod and thatched roof.

Niall McAuley John A. Coffey CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY I have some memory there were houses (is that the correct word?) very similar to this one built on farming land in early USA history? Perhaps by Irish settlers.

It surely looks like a sod house. A grim way of life.

I just worked out that Marconi's first wife was my Irish maternal great-grandmother's half-sister. Tuning in with interest! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi www.thepeerage.com/p48399.htm#i483987

beachcomber australia interesting, do tell more.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Marconi's first wife Beatrice, www.thepeerage.com/p48399.htm#i483985 , was the daughter of www.thepeerage.com/p1795.htm#i17941 , whose first child by his first wife was my great-grandmother, www.thepeerage.com/p28200.htm#i281999. It's complicated - they all seem to have married several times!

This is a contemporary description of the station: The Clifden Station of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph System, from Scientific American, 23 November 1907.

beachcomber australia Got it, you have a very interesting family tree. Marconi's Mother was also Irish!

Mwahahahaaa! So, what've we got? Looking west or south-west. It's a turf bog. Village on a hill behind. Another village at the foot of the hill with what looks like a public toilet but is probably some sort of municipal building - a school maybe? I shall see what I can find.

derangedlemur lol! You can do it!

In Google or Bing aerial views, the bogs appear bright orange or brown. To the East of Ballymena, the countryside gets too hilly. I fancy this bog to the West.

Niall McAuley That's roughly where I'm looking on the 6" as well.

derangedlemurMwahahahaaa! Are you spoofing about "looking west or south-west"??