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Down the old bog road

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 10 older comments, and then…
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Looks like between Maam and Leenaun somewhere...
  • John A. Coffey said:
    Very sad photograph, hopefully they were living in the little cottage down the road.
  • CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:
    That was how the poor lived. It is their home made of sod and thatched roof.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Niall McAuley John A. Coffey CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY I have some memory there were houses (is that the correct word?) very similar to this one built on farming land in early USA history? Perhaps by Irish settlers.
  • Robin Parkes said:
    It surely looks like a sod house. A grim way of life.

Hotel, Clonbur, Co Galway

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

Children on the rocks?

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Fred Dean Snr. said:
    They are working at the quarry, one has a crowbar. The clothing is protective.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    "Lissoughter, Recess, Galway" the catalogue says. Somewhere near here, going by the distant hills? Streetview - goo.gl/maps/cc6YTL1wGoJ2
  • beachcomber australia said:
    There is a 'similar item' of a child (crawling over an adult?) with a railway and a wagon to the left as if the line was being built. The Connemara railway opened in 1895 after difficulties, so the 1891 date makes sense. Was Mr Hargrave working on the railway? catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000288646 www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/...
  • Niall McAuley said:
    beachcomber australia I think that streetview looks good, The 25" map draws a literal blank today, but on the 1930s Cassini 6", this is marked as a Quarry (Marble).
  • beachcomber australia said:
    King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra visited in 1903 - via John Spooner. I think a few hundred metres down the hill - I wonder if these lads are in that crowd 11 years on - bet they were!