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The prize? A sticky bun with extra toffee!!!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 15 older comments, and then…
  • Wendy: said:
    my guess --Cape Clear island
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Wendy: I hope you are right!
  • Mike Grimes said:
    Thinking the white rocks are chalk, I googled photos of "chalk cliffs Ireland". there are some in Portrush in Antrim of which the geology in the Alamy picture that appears near the top looks somewhat similar.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Mike Grimes Mike I hope you win the bun, but I need more evidence!
  • O Mac said:
    Rathlin could be another possibility... It has cliffs with chalk outcrops. mvdirona.com/trips/britishisles2017/images/IMG_2931.web.jpg from mvdirona.com/2017/08/rathlin-island/

The Lady and the Lighthouse

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 7 older comments, and then…
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Better known as Crookhaven Lighthouse www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/20914...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    ... Towards the west end of the peninsula is a terrace of houses built in 1907 as a coastguard station, now converted to private holiday accommodation; this replaced an earlier range of buildings erected in the early 19th century, when Crookhaven was a centre both for legitimate coastal shipping and for smuggling activity. ...

    From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Island_(Ireland)

    I think it is Mary Poppins on the rocks; she breezed in with a change of the wind.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    via Ken Dowdall The scaffolding surrounds a light keepers house, built 1896 www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/20914...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    ... Every year keepers had to paint the lantern inside and out, the gallery, gates, iron fences, gutters and downpipes, oil tanks and flagstaffs. The annual whitewashing, cleaning out of “ashpits, cesspools, etc” was to be carried out as soon as possible after the 1st of April. The cottage also had to be maintained in ship-shape condition as unannounced inspections were regular as well as the annual Commissioners’ inspection. The keepers were provided with an allowance of eight tons of Scotch coal or seven tons of English coal every year. The keeper here could have expected to earn 3 shillings per day in 1905. ... From - crookhavenlighthouse.ie/about-crookhaven-lighthouse/
  • Deirge Del said:
    I'd be thinking the the lady should be destined for the Royal College of Surgeons, either to repair her bones or to put her under Bergin's microscope to see if she's been photoshopped! Although not clear to us there may be path which runs down the left of picture and even to the rocks below. In all events any woman living here would surely be confident of her way around.

To shine a light in the darkness

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    A lot of history here - www.irishlights.ie/tourism/our-lighthouses/inishtearaght....
    This may help with dating -
    " ... An aerial hoist on the rock over the south landing was erected during 1906-07. Incandescent apparatus using vaporised paraffin burnt in a mantle replaced the multi-wick oil burner in March 1909.
    ... "
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Only mention of a hoist, so 1906-1907 looks good, thank you.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    It looks like a fantastic but inhospitable place. In 2015 via William Glasgow Howe
    Click through to the large size to see the incline and platforms
  • Suck Diesel said:
    “Inishtearaght (Inis Tiaracht) is one of the Blasket Islands and is probably the only Irish lighthouse that ordinary Joe Soaps like you and me will never get a glimpse of. This is a shame because it is one of the great lighthouses of the south-west of Ireland. But alas, it is a long way out, the lighthouse is on the far side of the island and no boats go out that far.
    It is of course, Ireland's most westerly lighthouse”

    irishlighthouses.blogspot.com/search?q=Inish+tearaght
  • Suck Diesel said:

    It’s remote!