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Oh to be a sailor? from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded April 2019
"View of the coastline in an unknown location" is Beara, County Cork from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded May 2018
Admiralty Recreation Grounds, Castletownbere, Co. Cork from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded February 2017
First Class Battleship from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded January 2014
"Chapel building ... in an unknown location" = Castletownbere! from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded June 2012
Horse in a Harbour from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded June 2012
"Townscape and riverbank in an unknown location" = Castletownbere! from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded June 2012
Unknown unknown is now a known known from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded March 2012

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Admiralty Recreation Grounds, Castletownbere, Co. Cork

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14 older comments, and then…
beachcomber australia said:
According to this Twitter conversation, it's on Bere Island - twitter.com/cork1914to1924/status/529669140043554816 Streeview - goo.gl/maps/dErTjoxweqJ2 - see building on left, which was the island school according to Twitter. Edit - or perhaps a bit further back - goo.gl/maps/o7wGxLPZdqG2
O Mac said:
The boundary stones look new? The pavilion had been glazed in by the time Fergus O Connor got there. catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000290806 Your "bracing Atlantic air" must have got to them.
Carol Maddock said:
From the Irish Examiner on Friday, 17 June 1904 (the day after the original Bloomsday!)
BERE ISLAND ATHLETIC SPORTS The Bere Island Athletic Sports were quite up to the usual standard, which is saying a good deal. These events are looked forward to by a large section of the people of Bearehaven, and are always most successful and liberally patronised. ... The sports were held in the Admiralty Recreation Grounds, which are beautifully situated and splendidly laid out for the special purpose of affording a proper ground for such events. The whole place is well adapted and equipped for recreation purposes. ... The R.F., twin-screw launch "Miner", under the capable command of Qr.-Sergt. Hawken, R.E., was at the service of those who wished to avail of the opportunity of being comfortably conveyed from Castletown to Laurence Cove.
guliolopez said:
I have an old/admiralty map of Bere Island somewhere. But as far as I know the recreation grounds were on the isthmus at Lawrence Cove. Around here. EDIT: Not sure how I overlooked it, but beachcomber australia had already linked the same spot. And included the National School in the angle (it does seem a likely candidate for the robust looking building on the far-left of the Lawrence Shot). Though the immediate ground-level topography doesn't seem to fully line-up - the OSI maps indicate a tidal influence close-by, so there could have been some "shifting" since. Whatever the location, I love the image itself. The ladies with the pram, and the spectators in naval uniform are all great. EDIT2: Looking at it again, I think beachcomber australia has it spot on. No lingering doubt on location in my view :)
Niall McAuley said:
A colour postcard version from 1904.

"Chapel building ... in an unknown location" = Castletownbere!

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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Heading off to final day of conference. Wireless permitting, I'll check in to see if there are cries of distress and ye want a helpful hint... :)
Niall McAuley said:
I know, I know, miss, miss, miss pick me!
Moira said:
No idea where it is, but judging by the scaffolding to the left and right of the chapel I would say a new church is being is being built behind and the church at the front was probably demolished
DannyM8 said:
I think we may be back in Castletownbere again
DannyM8 said:
If you zoom into the last castletownbere photo you can see this church and also see my note there about the building of the new Church. You can also see some of the scaffolding poles to the left of the church in this photo

Horse in a Harbour

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@m.lartigue said:
<3 beautiful :D
heady school said:
For some reason I was thinking Dingle.
Moira said:
think your right ,harbour and church in the right place,,,http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,444435,601143,7,7
Moira said:
maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,444435,601143,7,7
Bernard Healy said:
Nope, definitely not Dingle. The church is wrong (I'm one of the priests based there) and the buildings don't look familiar. The church in Dingle (built 1864) has a distinctive tower.