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Flickr is sometimes amazing! With handrails in 2012 via Fergal O'Callaghan

"There is an Irish legend that states that the cave is home to a sacred trout, “the fairy trout,” which, according to legend, avoided bait and evaded capture. The story told is that a beautiful young woman was set to marry a king’s son, but the prince was murdered before they were wed. Heartbroken, the young lady went mad with despair and then disappeared unexpectedly. It was believed she was taken away by the fairies. After a while, a white trout appeared in the subterranean river of the cave. It was fable to be a fairy, and given the utmost respect. However a soldier came to put the rumours to the test and caught the trout to fry for his dinner. He placed it on the pan, but the fish would not cook. Although the fish would not cook, he decided to eat the fish anyway. As he put his knife to the fish, it screamed, leaped from the pan to the floor, and transformed into a beautiful young woman. The woman explained that she was waiting for her true love in the river. She demanded he renounce his evil courses and take her back to the river. In the blink of an eye, the woman disappeared and in her place laid a small, white trout. The soldier quickly put the trout on a plate and rushed to the cave to put her back into the river. When he did, the river turned blood red momentarily. To this day it is said that one can find a white trout, with a little scar where it was cut, swimming in the sunny part of the river." From - www.visitgalway.ie/explore/places-of-interest/unusual-att...

Yikes! SpookyView - goo.gl/maps/Nzb8j9NsfVRFpG3r8

Down we go - youtu.be/yEFdr6oLVYE - which imho confirms (at about 0:51) this reverse view Stereo Pair - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000564478

Visited it in Autumn 2022 but it is closed off, no access.

Look forward with confidence to finding out where this great photo is located.

Are you aware there is a viewing device called a stereoscope? I actually own a Sokkia M27 Mirror Stereoscope.

Cong?

Yes, does look like Cong! That 19th century church was replaced c.1973. www.wejchert.ie/projects/project-detail/cong-church-co.-mayo

Check the ruins in this streetview of Cong. If this is it, I think the "modern church" is gone.

References I've come across indicate that Burri was Swiss, not a French national. The name Ernest Burri shows up multiple times at a French-language website about Swiss aviators. I can't read French, but from what I can puzzle out it looks as though he flew for the French during WWI.

whyaduck: Thanks! We'll change Burri's nationality in the source data and reload the description.

wow the plane in this picture is so different from now days. It is amazing to look at a picture like this and think about how the plane could actually fly. It doesn't seem to safe and the engine must have been very small. Great picture.

a horseback pilot! what a metaphor :) Hi, I'm an admin for a group called New Directions, and we'd love to have this photograph added to the group!

I wonder what the story is with the split ailerons on the top wing. For that matter, what model airplane is it?