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With no roof for their heads

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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• Fred Dean Snr. said:

  I think more than one family here. 2 plunger butter churns.

• beachcomber australia said:

  There's a companion photo with more unfortunate folk - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000227350 No luck searching for a run-down Big House near Castlebar, with a semi-circular driveway and a lodge house on the left. Anybody ?

• O Mac said:

  I wonder could this have been taken at the entrance to Elmhall Belcarra, Castlebar in 1886. The gate lodge on left could be the house that's now restored as the Elmhall eviction house.. maps.app.goo.gl/paRFnh6YzMWA4H7FA In 1886 the Connaught Telegraph documented an eviction which took place at Elm Hall, Belcarra, near Castlebar, where the Walshe family was evicted by the landlord's agents, Gardiner, Pringle and Cuffe. On Saturday last, the savage crew, composed of Gardiner, Pringle, Cuffe and 50 or 60 policemen with three or four officers and a paid magistrate attended at Tully and Elmhall and succeeded in evicting two wretched families. There is nothing remarkable to be noted in the proceeding of the day further than we mentioned last week - that John Garvey and James Walshe were turned adrift and that the heartless wretch Gardiner assisted her bastard relation in removing the furniture from the cabin.

• Sharon Corbet said:

  O Mac There are some Wynne photos here of the Walshe eviction, and it doesn't seem to be the gate lodge here.

• beachcomber australia said:

  O Mac Sharon Corbet The gate and semi-circular wall were to the east, according to the old geohive maps. Wall and iron gates (not the same ones) still visible here - goo.gl/maps/L9LZb4GZkBsk7tCa8