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If my memory serves me the monks at the new Abbey used to make marmalade on a commercial scale in the 1970s The new Abbey some 3 or 4 miles from this site was set up in 1938 with foundation stone blessed in 1957.

Mr French's transport (see note) has "57" painted on the rear - see - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000325146 That six-storey mill on the left appears to have had trouble; not even a pile of rubble there now.

No similar angle in streetview, but it does walk right into the ruins in abbeyview

OSI is still not generating links, but the most obvious change is the mill building at left, which is completely gone now.

Useful map via Marc Hagen

I don't see them in the Civil Records - maybe they were married in Rome?

Niall McAuley It might be an April Fool's Day prank !

Niall McAuley 1952 is too late for the civil records. Marriage records are only released after 75 years.

I should add that I haven't found anything of interest yet.

Sharon Corbet I will be back to comment in 2027

Look more like an airport these days- www.dublinairport.com/images/default-source/cip-2020-imag...

Here's a Streetview from St Clare's Road at the centre - one can rotate to look down the twin roads of Pearse Road (with the grassed rectangles in the middle) and then rotate again to see the curving line of houses on Staunton Avenue: www.google.com/maps/@52.8399914,-6.9416993,3a,75y,104.56h...

Modified herring bone pattern in field is for land drainage. What I can't see are the terracotta clay pipes. Maybe they have been laid and are awaiting to be back filled. The heaps along the headland look to be stone to be laid over the pipes.

That's Graiguecullen GAA pitch bottom right - drainage works underway... And Carlow Castle is visible across the river in the background

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