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Anyone know what kind of barrels those are behind the two small boys? They look like something for fruit, but they seem to be open-topped. Were they ordered specifically?

Maybe the cooperage made these wooden buckets just for sale and they weren't destined for a life of drink (in the distillery)?!

Thanks, they look like laundry basins or, as you say, buckets. I suppose they could have been used in various ways, from providing water for animals to scrubbing floors. No plastics back then, lucky sods!

This is a bit speculative, but the a search of the 1901 census for coopers in Killarney says most lived on Boherkeale Glebe. The OSI 25" shows trees on the right of that lane looking North. Streetview is patchy in these little lanes, but I think this streetview is a reverse view along that lane, which would, at the time the shot above was taken, have shown the photographer in the distance, and that horses rear in the foreground.

Here it is as of June 2014 www.flickr.com/photos/johnheff/14505758222

Nice! Will you be pretending to be a pirate? :) Went there a few years ago on the recommendation by the Saw Docs... a line in the song mentions skinny dipping. Well I dipped my big toe into that water and it dropped off through cold and sheer fright. No skinny dipping for me! Apart from the barrels and the clothes, it looks the same!

Didn't we have a companion piece to this a few months back? Lovely photo. That scene in the background between the harbour walls is like something out of a Constable painting.

Sue Parry Always pretend to be a pirate would be my Modus Operandi! Will have to try to get a shot from the same angle... :)

Fabulous old image. I'm officially jealous!

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyelightfilms] We did indeed! This is it.

The pier has been extended since the photo, and the steps shown here replaced. The 1902 map (OS-8-1-1-2 at the OSNI historical site) shows the pier as in the photo, the photographer would have been right at the tip. The Pier is not changed on the 1920 map, so no help in dating this one... .

Ardglass grew from a place of little note in the 13th century to a modestly prosperous port in the 15th century.It was an important town and port in the Middle Ages, but no harbour works seem to have been constructed until after 1812. Then William Ogilvie, who had acquired the Ardglass estate, had a harbour built. Further extensions to the pier and a lighthouse were made, but in 1838 a great storm undermined the lighthouse which fell into the sea along with the end of the pier. Work on the piers was completed by 1885 and they remain in use to this day.

Niall McAuley Niall, my plug-in for that map is misbehaving. Could I trouble you for a Street View?

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Carol with your super duper resolution, can you please check the time on the sundial.

Online Exhibition UCD www.ucd.ie/archives/html/exhibit2.htm The Fishing Industry, Ardglass, Co. Down 'Ardglass, Co. Down. 1911. Fishing Industry. Local sailing fleet being displaced by English steam drifters which land and sell their catch, and get back to the fishing banks before the sailing boats reach the market. As a result of our visit some of the fishermen have obtained loans from the Department to equip their boats with motors. It is interesting that we see both Steam and sail in this photo.